Amphiregulin co-operates with bone morphogenetic protein 15 to increase bovine oocyte developmental competence: effects on gap junction-mediated metabolite supply

Hyaluronan Synthase 1 (HAS1) Requires Higher Cellular UDP-GlcNAc Concentration than HAS2 and HAS3

(2013) Kirsi Rilla et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Mode of oocyte maturation affects EGF-like peptide function and oocyte competence

(2013) D. Richani et al.   MOLECULAR HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Altered pregnancy outcomes in mice following treatment with the hyperglycaemia mimetic, glucosamine, during the periconception period

(2013) Cheryl J. Schelbach et al.   REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Accelerates Mouse Oocyte Development In Vivo1

(2012) Isabelle Demeestere et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Metabolic Differences in Bovine Cumulus-Oocyte Complexes Matured In Vitro in the Presence or Absence of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone and Bone Morphogenetic Protein 151

(2012) Melanie L. Sutton-McDowall et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

A Covalently Dimerized Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-15 Variant Identifies Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptor Type 1B as a Key Cell Surface Receptor on Ovarian Granulosa Cells

(2012) Minna M. Pulkki et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Activation of Latent Human GDF9 by a Single Residue Change (Gly391Arg) in the Mature Domain

(2012) Courtney M. Simpson et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Promising System for Selecting Healthy In Vitro–Fertilized Embryos in Cattle

(2012) Satoshi Sugimura et al.   PLoS One

Signaling pathways regulating FSH- and amphiregulin-induced meiotic resumption and cumulus cell expansion in the pig

(2012) R Prochazka et al.   REPRODUCTION

Glucose Metabolism in Mouse Cumulus Cells Prevents Oocyte Aging by Maintaining Both Energy Supply and the Intracellular Redox Potential1

(2011) Qing Li et al.   BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION

Transcriptome dynamics and molecular cross-talk between bovine oocyte and its companion cumulus cells

(2011) A Regassa et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Cumulus cell gene expression predicts better cleavage-stage embryo or blastocyst development and pregnancy for ICSI patients

(2011) S. Wathlet et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

The ratio of growth differentiation factor 9: Bone morphogenetic protein 15 mRNA expression is tightly co-regulated and differs between species over a wide range of ovulation rates

(2011) Janet L. Crawford et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Differences in the participation of TGFB superfamily signalling pathways mediating porcine and murine cumulus cell expansion

(2011) Robert B Gilchrist et al.   REPRODUCTION

Effect of epidermal growth factor-like peptides on pig cumulus cell expansion, oocyte maturation, and acquisition of developmental competence in vitro: comparison with gonadotropins

(2011) Radek Procházka et al.   REPRODUCTION

Cumulus cell gene expression is associated with oocyte developmental quality and influenced by patient and treatment characteristics

(2010) T. Adriaenssens et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Growth differentiation factor 9 signaling requires ERK1/2 activity in mouse granulosa and cumulus cells

(2010) M. Sasseville et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Pig preovulatory oocytes modulate cumulus cell protein and gene expression in vitro

(2010) Francois Paradis et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

The bioactivity of human bone morphogenetic protein-15 is sensitive to C-terminal modification: Characterization of the purified untagged processed mature region

(2010) Minna M. Pulkki et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Mouse Oocytes Enable LH-Induced Maturation of the Cumulus-Oocyte Complex via Promoting EGF Receptor-Dependent Signaling

(2010) You-Qiang Su et al.   MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

The pivotal role of glucose metabolism in determining oocyte developmental competence

(2010) Melanie L Sutton-McDowall et al.   REPRODUCTION

Epidermal growth factor receptor kinase activity is required for gap junction closure and for part of the decrease in ovarian follicle cGMP in response to LH

(2010) Rachael P Norris et al.   REPRODUCTION

Mechanisms contributing to the reduced developmental competence of glucosamine-exposed mouse oocytes

(2010) Cheryl J. Schelbach et al.   REPRODUCTION FERTILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Regulation of Gap Junctions in Porcine Cumulus-Oocyte Complexes: Contributions of Granulosa Cell Contact, Gonadotropins, and Lipid Rafts

(2009) Maxime Sasseville et al.   MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Luteinizing hormone causes MAP kinase-dependent phosphorylation and closure of connexin 43 gap junctions in mouse ovarian follicles: one of two paths to meiotic resumption

(2008) R. P. Norris et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Oocyte-secreted factors: regulators of cumulus cell function and oocyte quality

(2008) Robert B. Gilchrist et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION UPDATE

Characterization of recombinant human growth differentiation factor-9 signaling in ovarian granulosa cells

(2007) David G. Mottershead et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY