Introduction of exogenous DNA into somatic and germ cells of chickens by microinjection into the germinal disc of fertilized ova.

abstract：:RNase MRP is a ribonucleoprotein endoribonuclease found predominantly in nucleoli, but which has been associated with mitochondria and mitochondrial RNA processing. In order to analyze the intracellular localization of specific RNA components of ribonucleoproteins of this type, a whole-mount method for in situ hybridi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Davis AF,Jeong-Yu S,Clayton DA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The homeobox-containing gene family plays a pivotal role in regulating, patterning, and axial morphogenesis in the developing embryo. But there is still very little known about the expression and function of these genes in mammalian oocytes and preimplantation stage embryos. In this study we have used degenerate prime...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ponsuksili S,Wimmers K,Adjaye J,Schellander K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P450aromatase (CYP19) is an essential part of the enzyme complex catalyzing the conversion of androgens into estrogens, which is a key reaction in the sex differentiation in vertebrates. Two full-length cDNAs encoding the genetic distinct CYP19A and CYP19B isozymes were isolated from Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hip...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： van Nes S,Moe M,Andersen Ø

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study has used methoxyacetic acid (MAA)-induced depletion of specific germ cell types in the rat and in situ hybridization with nonradioactive riboprobes to determine the stages of the spermatogenic cycle at which there is expression of the mRNA for the basic chromosomal protein transition protein 2 (TP2)....

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Saunders PT,Millar MR,Maguire SM,Sharpe RM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse egg activation, which includes release from meiotic metaphase II arrest, results from fertilization-induced increase in intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i). However, during egg activation caused by exposure to the protein synthesis inhibitor, cycloheximide, [Ca2+]i did not change. Although eggs fertili...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Moses RM,Kline D

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential culture and coculture are two methods of improving the development of preimplantation embryos in vitro. Direct comparison of the efficiency of these methods is limited. Proliferation and apoptosis determine the total number of blastomere in preimplantation embryo, which is a sensitive parameter for evaluati...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Xu JS,Chan ST,Lee WW,Lee KF,Yeung WS

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:So far, standard follicle culture systems can produce blastocyst from less than 40% of the in vitro matured oocytes compared to over 70% in the in vivo counterpart. Because the capacity for embryonic development is strictly associated with the terminal stage of oocyte growth, the nuclear maturity status of the in vitr...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ola SI,Ai JS,Liu JH,Wang Q,Wang ZB,Chen DY,Sun QY

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that bovine oocytes parthenogenetically activated after 40 hours (hr) of in vitro maturation proceed through the cell cycle faster than those after 20 hr of maturation. In the present study, we used this model of different speed of nuclear progression to investigate the correlation of two hall...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Tian XC,Lonergan P,Jeong BS,Evans AC,Yang X

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Centrosome reduction during spermiogenesis has been studied using anti-gamma-tubulin and anti-centrin antibodies and electron microscopy in nonhuman primates. Rhesus spermatids possess apparently normal centrosomes comprising a pair of centrioles associated with gamma-tubulin and centrin. However, they do not nucleate...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Manandhar G,Schatten G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposed plasma membrane proteins were labeled with 125I before and after incubation of boar sperm under capacitating conditions. Labeled protein profiles were compared to the ability of the sperm to penetrate zona-free hamster ova. Quantitatively, the labeled sperm membrane proteins were primarily low Mr prior to capa...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Berger T

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonal carcinoma (EC) cells are used widely as a model system for studying the expression of developmentally regulated genes, in particular genes that are regulated at the transcriptional level when EC cells differentiate. This review focuses on the molecular mechanisms that govern the transcription of the fibrobla...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lamb KA,Rizzino A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) plays a crucial role in meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes. In order to understand the mechanism by which MAPK regulates meiotic maturation, we examined the effects of the MAPK pathway inhibitor U0126 on microtubule organization, gamma-tubulin and nuclear mitotic apparatus prot...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lee SE,Kim JH,Kim NH

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of differences in gene expression, responding to cryopreservation may explain some of the observed differences in further development of the preimplantation stage embryos. The aim of this study was to create a link, for the first time, between morphological/developmental observations and gene activity cha...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Boonkusol D,Gal AB,Bodo S,Gorhony B,Kitiyanant Y,Dinnyes A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid analyses of nuclear basic proteins of an anuran amphibian, Rana catesbeiana, revealed that they are comprised of a full set of core histones and three types of lysine-rich, sperm-specific proteins. On the basis of their amino-acid compositions and partial amino-acid sequences of their trypsin-resistant core...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Itoh T,Ausio J,Katagiri C

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FGF-4 appears to be the first fibroblast growth factor (FGF) expressed during embryogenesis, and its expression is critical for early mammalian development. FGF-4 is expressed in the embryonic cell lines, F9, D3, and NT2/D1; but its expression in these cells is repressed upon differentiation. Transcription of the FGF-...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Lamb KA,Johnson LR,Rizzino A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins in the seminal fluid of animals with internal fertilization effect numerous responses in mated females that impact both male and female fertility. Among these proteins is the highly represented class of proteolysis regulators (proteases and their inhibitors). Though proteolysis regulators have now been identi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Laflamme BA,Wolfner MF

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) plays important regulatory roles during mouse spermatogenesis. PKA-mediated signaling has been shown to regulate gene expression, chromatin condensation, capacitation, and motility during sperm development and behavior, although how PKA is regulated in spatiotemporal manners durin...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Xu K,Qi H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of female gonads in the chicken is asymmetric. This asymmetry affects gene expression, morphology, and germ cell development; consequently only the left ovary develops into a functional organ, whereas the right ovary remains vestigial. In males, on the other hand, both gonads develop into functional testes...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： de Melo Bernardo A,Heeren AM,van Iperen L,Fernandes MG,He N,Anjie S,Noce T,Ramos ES,de Sousa Lopes SM

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We produced four transgenic founder rats (F0) by introducing into rat embryos a fusion gene, which consisted of rat growth hormone (GH) promoter containing with four copies of thyroid hormone response element (TRE) and antisense cDNA sequences for rat GH. This transgene promoter directed 2.8-fold stimulation of CAT ge...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Matsumoto K,Kakidani H,Takahashi A,Nakagata N,Anzai M,Matsuzaki Y,Takahashi Y,Miyata K,Utsumi K,Iritani A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro oocyte maturation followed by in vitro fertilization (IVM/IVF) success in the domestic cat remains inferior to commonly studied livestock or laboratory species. The objectives here were (1) to histologically assess atresia status of freshly excised follicle/oocyte complexes, and (2) to evaluate taphonomic cha...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Wood TC,Montali RJ,Wildt DE

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulators are located at the boundaries of differentially regulated genes and delimit their interactions by establishing independent chromatin structures. Recently, an insulator sequence has been found in the 5'-flanking region of arylsulfatase (ARS) gene from sea urchin. To investigate functional conservation of thi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Takada T,Iida K,Akasaka K,Yasue H,Torii R,Tsujimoto G,Taira M,Kimura H

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen consumption of preimplantation and early postimplantation mouse embryos has been measured using a novel noninvasive ultramicrofluorescence technique, based on an oil-soluble, nontoxic quaternary benzoid compound pyrene, whose fluorescence is quenched in the presence of oxygen. Pyruvate and glucose consumption, ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Houghton FD,Thompson JG,Kennedy CJ,Leese HJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovulated rat oocytes undergo spontaneous activation during in vitro culture. After extrusion of the second polar body, they do not enter interphase but are arrested again in next metaphase-like stage (M III arrest). The present study demonstrates that puromycin and chloral hydrate can trigger transition to interphase ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zernicka-Goetz M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progesterone (P) has previously been shown to rapidly increase free intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i), and subsequently to initiate the acrosome reaction (AR) in capacitated human sperm. The present study used cytochemical analysis of the AR, and spectrofluorometric determination of sperm [Ca2+]i and intra...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Garcia MA,Meizel S

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminum hydroxide gel (Al-gel), which is used as an adjuvant, can absorb macromolecules. We investigated the applicability of Al-gel to the sustained release of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) as a simplified method of superovulation (SOV) in rabbits. The responsiveness of rabbits to SOV by a single injection of F...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hashimoto S,Kimura K,Kuramochi T,Aoyagi K,Hirako M,Kawaguchi M,Iwata H,Hirao M,Kitada K,Hirasawa K,Ueda M

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-pubertal pig oocytes display reduced developmental competence compared with adult oocytes following in vitro maturation (IVM). Exposure to dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate (dbcAMP) for the first 20 hr IVM improves development of pre-pubertal oocytes, suggesting that their cAMP content may be inadequate. Th...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Bagg MA,Nottle MB,Grupen CG,Armstrong DT

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to investigate the effect of recipient activation time on the chromatin structure and development of bovine nuclear transfer embryos. Serum-starved skin cells were electrofused to enucleated oocytes, activated 1-5 hr after fusion, and cultured in vitro. Some fused eggs were fixed at each time ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Choi JY,Kim CI,Park CK,Yang BK,Cheong HT

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we cloned and sequenced a sperm specific antigen, designated as HSS (EMBL nomenclature human sperm associated antigen 9: hSPAG9) from human testis (Shankar et al.: Biochem Biophys Res Commun 243:561-565, 1998). The present study was conducted to isolate baboon proteomic homologue in order to find out wheth...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Shankar S,Mohapatra B,Verma S,Selvi R,Jagadish N,Suri A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of unrestricted somatic stem cells (USSCs) holds great promise for future clinical applications. Conventionally, mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) or other animal-based feeder layers are used to support embryonic stem cell (ESC) growth; the use of such feeder cells increases the risk of retroviral and other p...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Keshel SH,Soleimani M,Tavirani MR,Ebrahimi M,Raeisossadati R,Yasaei H,Afsharzadeh D,Behroz MJ,Atashi A,Amanpour S,Khoshzaban A,Roozafzoon R,Behrouzi GR

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, Sry, Sox9, and M33 act as regulators at a chromatin level and promote the maturation of embryonic gonads into testes. Recently, it was shown that transcriptional regulation by DNA methylation plays crucial roles in gene expression during the differentiation and development of various cell types. To determi...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Mizukami T,Kanai Y,Fujisawa M,Kanai-Azuma M,Kurohmaru M,Hayashi Y

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00