Spermatozoa lacking acrosin protein show delayed fertilization.

abstract：:We have examined the developmental pattern of prolactin receptor expression in the mouse by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, in situ hybridization, and radioligand binding and have found two unexpected aspects of temporal regulation. First, high levels of prolactin receptor mRNA were detected in mouse ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Tzeng SJ,Linzer DI

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a specific protein binding assay we have shown that a spermatozoon of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis contains 1.58 +/- 0.74 x 10(-19) moles of inositol 1,4,5-tri-phosphate (InsP3), while a human spermatozoon contains 6.4 +/- 0.14 x 10(-19) moles. Induction of the acrosome reaction (AR) in both species, by expos...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Tosti E,Palumbo A,Dale B

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The completion of spermiogenesis requires condensation of the haploid spermatid genome. This task is accomplished in a gradual and relentless manner by first erasing the nucleosomal organization of chromatin while the DNA is protected by transient nuclear proteins TP1 and TP2. Then, the more permanent protamines come ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kierszenbaum AL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear transplantation studies demonstrated the importance of paternal contribution to embryogenesis. Paternal treatment with agents like cyclophosphamide and 5-azacytidine has been shown to cause an increase in pre-implantation loss (PIL) and post-implantation loss (POL). Studies from our laboratory have shown that ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kedia N,Gill-Sharma MK,Parte P,Juneja HS,Balasinor N

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to use atomic force microscopy (AFM), with submicron resolution, for morphophologic and morphometric analyses of acrosome intact and acrosome-reacted human sperm heads. A mixed population of acrosome intact and reacted sperm was produced by treating capacitated sperm with A23187, which ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Mai A,Weerachatyanukul W,Tomietto M,Wayner DD,Wells G,Balhorn R,Leader A,Cyr JL,Tanphaichitr N

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrosomal reaction is an essential prerequisite to fertilization. The changes in lipid composition of sperm membranes cause fusion of the plasma and outer acrosomal membranes that results in the exocytosis of acrosomal contents. We report that both bull and rabbit spermatozoa contain a phosphatidylcholine-specific pho...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hinkovska-Galchev V,Srivastava PN

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were performed to establish the effects of the size and number of artificial holes produced in the zona pellucida (ZP) on hatching and trophoblast outgrowth in vitro. Limited partial zona dissection (PZD) produced small, narrow incisions, and zona drilling with acidic Tyrode's (AT) across a larger ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Cohen J,Feldberg D

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fully grown immature oocytes acquire the ability to be fertilized with sperm after meiotic maturation, which is finally accomplished by the formation and activation of the maturation-promoting factor (MPF). MPF is the complex of Cdc2 and cyclin B, and its function in promoting metaphase is common among species. The Mo...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Yoshida N,Mita K,Yamashita M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of chromatin condensation during spermiogenesis in Rana tigerina is similar to the heterochromatization in somatic cells, where 30 nm fibers are coalesced together into a dense mass in spermatozoa without changing their initial size and nucleosomal organization. This conclusion was supported by the finding...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Manochantr S,Sretarugsa P,Chavadej J,Sobhon P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exogenous supply of hematopoietic cytokines is essential for maintaining murine embryonic stem (ES) cells in a proliferative yet undifferentiated state. Recently, it was demonstrated that hematopoietic cytokines utilize the gp130 signal transduction pathway to maintain this phenotype, although their involvement tow...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Moore K,Piedrahita JA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study possible role and regulation of apoptosis occurred in primate endometrium, the expression of apoptosis-related molecules, Fas, FasL, B cell lymphoma/leukaemia-2 (Bcl-2), and Bax were analyzed in relation to occurrence of apoptosis and proliferation in the cycling endometrium of the rhesus monkey using immunoh...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Wei P,Jin X,Tao SX,Han CS,Liu YX

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three staining procedures to detect sperm acrosome integrity were compared via electron microscopy. Stains were applied to epididymal, freshly ejaculated, in vivo capacitated, and sonicated sperm cells in addition to spermatozoa displaying sequentially removed plasma and outer and inner acrosomal membranes. Sequential...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： McBride CE,Fayrer-Hosken RA,Srivastava PN,Brackett BG

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bicarbonate/CO2 is believed to be the key in vitro effector of sperm capacitation, a process which induces major changes in the sperm plasma membrane in preparation for fertilization. In a flow cytometric study, we examined the effect of bicarbonate on boar spermatozoa using merocyanine, an impermeant lipophilic probe...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Harrison RA,Ashworth PJ,Miller NG

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse and rabbit preimplantation embryos with intact zona pellucida were incubated for 3 hr with DNA-carrying constructs containing insulin as an internalizable ligand: (insulin-polylysine)-DNA and (insulin-polylysine)-DNA-(streptavidin-polylysine)-(biotinylated adenovirus). Video-intensified microscopy demonstrated t...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Ivanova MM,Rosenkranz AA,Smirnova OA,Nikitin VA,Sobolev AS,Landa V,Naroditsky BS,Ernst LK

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to nickel has been shown to cause damage to the testis in several animal models. It is not known if the testis expresses protein(s) that can bind nickel. To test this, we used a nickel-binding assay to isolate testicular nickel-binding proteins. We identified glutamate-ammonia ligase (GLUL) as a prominent nic...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Sun Y,Ou Y,Cheng M,Ruan Y,van der Hoorn FA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) regulates folliculogenesis in the ovary and spermatogenesis in the testis via specific, high affinity membrane-bound receptors (FSHR). To assess the role of FSHR gene expression in regulating expression of FSHR protein in the plasma membrane, the effects of a porcine FSHR cDNA antise...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zhu C,Wang Y,Nixon MD,La Barbera AR

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative primer extension method was used to measure the mass of histone gene transcripts in mature oocytes of the amphibian Xenopus laevis. The procedure, using a large excess of gene-specific oligonucleotide primer and continuous incorporation of a radiolabeled deoxynucleoside triphosphate precursor, is more s...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Brashears-Macatee S,Hinkley C,Perry M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse oocyte development in vitro has been studied in the past several years, but no evidence showed that the fertilizable oocytes could be obtained from the fetal mouse germ cells before the formation of the primordial follicles. In this study, an efficient and simple method has been established to obtain the mature ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Shen W,Li L,Zhang D,Pan Q,Ding M,Deng H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleolar fine structure, "blebbing" activity of nuclear envelope, and activation of heterogeneous nuclear RNA (hnRNA) synthesis were studied in bovine reconstructed embryos obtained by electrofusion of a single eight-cell blastomere with an enucleated oocyte. Developmental progress of nucleolar fine structure and hnR...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Kanka J,Fulka J Jr,Fulka J,Petr J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of a paternal genome in parthenogenetic embryos clearly limits their postimplantation development, but apparently not their preimplantation development, since morphologically normal blastocysts can be formed. The cleavage rate of these embryos during the preimplantation period gives a better indication of the...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Henery CC,Kaufman MH

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seminiferous tubules of the testis and epididymal tubules in adult rodents are enveloped by contractile myoid cells, which move sperm and fluids along the male reproductive tract. Myoid cells in the testis influence Sertoli cells by paracrine signaling, but their role in the epididymis is unknown. Electron microscopy ...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Oliveira RL,Parent A,Cyr DG,Gregory M,Mandato CA,Smith CE,Hermo L

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we cloned and characterized the follicle stimulating hormone receptor (Fshr) and luteinizing hormone receptor (Lhr) cDNAs of pejerrey Odontesthes bonariensis, a species with temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), and analyzed their expression in relation to Fshb and Lhb subunits during gonadogen...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Shinoda T,Miranda LA,Okuma K,Hattori RS,Fernandino JI,Yoshizaki G,Somoza GM,Strüssmann CA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endometriosis is regarded as a hormone-dependent disease. Current therapeutic approaches to treating this common gynecological disorder mainly depend on surgical and hormonal interventions, but the high rate of disease recurrence as well as the side effects related to such therapies make it difficult for patients to r...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Che XH,Chen YC,Chen CL,Ye XL,Zhu H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fibrous sheath is a major cytoskeletal structure in the principal piece of the mammalian sperm flagellum. Two peptide sequences obtained from a tryptic digest of mouse fibrous sheath proteins exhibited high homology with mu-class glutathione S-transferases (GSTs). Using a DNA probe amplified from degenerate polyme...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Fulcher KD,Welch JE,Klapper DG,O'Brien DA,Eddy EM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following Northern analysis, GGT mRNA was found predominantly within the caput epididymides and kidney. The size of mRNAs for kidney, caput, corpus, and ductus deferens were 2.2, 2.3, 2.2, and 2.3 kb, respectively, whereas cauda showed a doublet of 2.2 and 2.3 kb. GGT transpeptidation and hydrolytic activity within ep...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Hinton BT,Palladino MA,Mattmueller DR,Bard D,Good K

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sry expression is essential for initiating male sex differentiation, and the expression occurs only during a restricted period in the developing gonad. It is thought that Sry is part of a pathway of genes that regulate sex determination. Although the interactions of several genes with Sry expression have been suggeste...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Yokouchi K,Ito M,Nishino K,Yamanouchi K,Naito K,Suzawa M,Kato S,Hakamata Y,Endo H,Tojo H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demecolcine-induced enucleation (IE) of mouse oocytes has been shown to improve development to term of cloned mice. In this study, we characterized the kinetics and morphological progression of bovine oocytes subjected to IE, and evaluated their ability to support embryo development to the blastocyst stage after nucle...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Russell DF,Ibáñez E,Albertini DF,Overström EW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) on the development of cultured rat pre-antral follicles. Pre-antral follicles with a diameter between 140 and 160 microm are mechanically isolated from ovaries of 10-day-old rats and cultured in groups for 6 days in FSH and...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Zhao J,Taverne MA,Van Der Weijden GC,Bevers MM,Van Den Hurk R

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat epididymal glycoprotein DE associates with the dorsal region of the sperm head during sperm maturation, migrates to the equatorial segment (ES) with the acrosome reaction (AR), and is involved in gamete membrane fusion. In the present study we examined the association of DE with the sperm surface and the relations...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Cohen DJ,Rochwerger L,Ellerman DA,Morgenfeld MM,Busso D,Cuasnicú PS

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full-length cDNA encoding the bovine transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) receptor type I (bT beta R-I) was isolated from a placenta cDNA library. The deduced protein sequence of 499 residues contains a single transmembrane domain, a cysteinerich extracellular domain, and an intracellular kinase domain with pr...

journal_title：Molecular reproduction and development

authors： Roelen BA,Van Eijk MJ,Van Rooijen MA,Bevers MM,Larson JH,Lewin HA,Mummery CL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00