The participation of growth factors in simulating the quiescent, proliferate, and differentiate stages of rat granulosa cells grown in a serum-free medium

The role of protein kinase C in cell surface signal transduction and tumour promotion

1984 • 7,521 citations

Transforming growth factor type beta: rapid induction of fibrosis and angiogenesis in vivo and stimulation of collagen formation in vitro.

1986 • 2,878 citations

PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES

1985 • 2,198 citations

The biology of platelet-derived growth factor

1986 • 2,036 citations

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASES

1988 • 1,841 citations

How does the extracellular matrix direct gene expression?

1982 • 1,475 citations

Some recent advances in the chemistry and biology of transforming growth factor-beta.

1987 • 1,308 citations

Development of Follicles in the Mammalian Ovary

1991 • 1,254 citations

Hormonal Regulation of the Differentiation of Cultured Ovarian Granulosa Cells*

1984 • 1,015 citations

Insulin-Like Growth Factors as Intraovarian Regulators of Granulosa Cell Growth and Function*

1985 • 921 citations

Dye Exclusion Tests for Cell Viability

1973 • 903 citations

Improved microfluorometric DNA determination in biological material using 33258 Hoechst

1979 • 860 citations

Maturation of ovarian follicles: actions and interactions of pituitary and ovarian hormones on follicular cell differentiation.

1980 • 837 citations

Peptide growth factors are multifunctional

1988 • 835 citations

Platelet-derived growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta enhance tissue repair activities by unique mechanisms.

1989 • 591 citations

FGF modulates the PDGF-driven pathway of oligodendrocyte development

1990 • 586 citations

The Role of Lipoproteins in Steroidogenesis and Cholesterol Metabolism in Steroidogenic Glands*

1982 • 576 citations

The Ovarian Androgen Producing Cells: A Review of Structure/Function Relationships¹,²

1985 • 561 citations

Hypophysectomy and a replacement therapy in the rat

1930 • 552 citations

Cell adhesion protein receptors as targets for transforming growth factor-$beta; action

1987 • 498 citations

Platelet-derived growth factor: mechanism of action and possible in vivo function.

1990 • 491 citations

Growth factor signaling: Where is the specificity?

1992 • 341 citations

Basic and acidic fibroblast growth factors interact with the same cell surface receptors.

1986 • 340 citations

Polypeptide Growth Factors: Roles In Normal And Abnormal Cell Growth

1987 • 339 citations

Protein Hormone Action: A Key to Understanding Ovarian Follicular and Luteal Cell Development

1976 • 337 citations

Developmental pattern of the secretion of cumulus expansion-enabling factor by mouse oocytes and the role of oocytes in promoting granulosa cell differentiation

1990 • 336 citations

Stimulation of Aromatase Activity by Follicle Stimulating Hormone in Rat Granulosa Cellsin Vivoandin Vitro*

1978 • 286 citations

FOLLICULAR FLUID

1974 • 252 citations

Transforming growth factor‐α: Structure and biological activities

1986 • 250 citations

Fibroblast and Epidermal Growth Factors are Mitogenic Agents for Cultured Granulosa Cells of Rodent, Porcine, and Human Origin*

1979 • 246 citations

Heparin and heparan sulfate increase the radius of diffusion and action of basic fibroblast growth factor.

1990 • 243 citations

Structure-Function Relationships during Granulosa Cell Differentiation*

1987 • 238 citations

GROWTH HORMONE INCREASES OVARIAN LEVELS OF IMMONOREACTIVE SOMATOMEDIN C/INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR IIN VIVO.

1986 • 234 citations

Serum suppresses the expression of hormonally induced functions in cultured granulosa cells

1980 • 220 citations

Hormonal regulation of ovarian cellular proliferation

1978 • 213 citations

Factors Controlling Proliferation and Progesterone Production by Bovine Granulosa Cells in Serum-Free Medium*

1981 • 213 citations

Transforming growth factor type beta specifically stimulates synthesis of proteoglycan in human adult arterial smooth muscle cells.

1987 • 198 citations

Mouse oocytes regulate hyaluronic acid synthesis and mucification by FSH-stimulated cumulus cells

1990 • 195 citations

Transforming growth factors-beta 1 and beta 2 are mitogens for rat Schwann cells.

1989 • 191 citations

Androgen Production by Theca and Granulosa Isolated from Proestrous Rat Follicles¹

1977 • 189 citations

Transforming growth factor beta₁ modulates extracellular matrix organization and cell‐cell junctional complex formation during in vitro angiogenesis

1990 • 184 citations

DEVELOPMENT OF THE GRAAFIAN FOLLICLE AND OVULATION

1947 • 183 citations

Effects of Fibroblast and Epidermal Growth Factors on Ovarian Cell Proliferationin Vitro. I. Characterization of the Response of Granulosa Cells to FGF and EGF

1977 • 174 citations

Growth Hormone Enhances Follicle-Stimulating Hormone-Induced Differentiation of Cultured Rat Granulosa Cells*

1986 • 173 citations

The Effect of Transforming Growth Factor-β on Follicle-Stimulating Hormone-Induced Differentiation of Cultured Rat Granulosa Cells*

1987 • 161 citations

The Effects of Insulin and Insulin-Like Growth Factors-I and -II on Estradiol Production by Granulosa Cells of Polycystic Ovaries*

1990 • 160 citations

Hormonal Control of Ovarian Follicular Development: A 1978 Perspective

1979 • 157 citations

Granulosa Cell Differentiation in vitro: Effect of Insulin on Growth and Functional Integrity1

1981 • 155 citations

TGF‐β stimulates primary human skin fibroblast DNA synthesis via an autocrine production of PDGF‐related peptides

1989 • 154 citations

DIRECT GONADOTROPHIC EFFECT OF GROWTH HORMONE ON OESTRADIOL PRODUCTION BY HUMAN GRANULOSA CELLS IN VITRO

1990 • 148 citations

Control of Proliferation and Differentiation of Ovine Granulosa Cells by Insulin-like Growth Factor-I and Follicle-Stimulating Hormone in Vitro

1992 • 147 citations

Transforming Growth Factor-Beta: Selective Increase in Glycosaminoglycan Synthesis by Cultures of Fibroblasts From Patients With Progressive Systemic Sclerosis

1987 • 145 citations

Growth Factors and the Ovary

1989 • 142 citations

Biosynthesis and regulation of type V collagen in diploid human fibroblasts.

1983 • 142 citations

Modulation of cAMP-mediated differentiation in ovarian granulosa cells by epidermal growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor.

1983 • 141 citations

ANTAGONISTIC INTERACTIONS OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS IN THE REGULATION OF GRANULOSA CELL DIFFERENTIATION

1986 • 137 citations

Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Express Distinct Transforming Growth Factor-β Receptor Phenotypes as a Function of Cell Density in Culture

1989 • 137 citations

The Role of Thyroid Hormone as a Biological Amplifier of the Actions of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone in the Functional Differentiation of Cultured Porcine Granulosa Cells*

1987 • 136 citations

Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I as an Amplifier of Follicle- Stimulating Hormone Action: Studies on Mechanism(s) and Site(s) of Action in Cultured Rat Granulosa Cells*

1988 • 124 citations

Regulation of Ovarian Cell Growth through the Local Production of Transforming Growth Factor-α by Theca Cells*

1988 • 119 citations

Growth factors modulate junctional cell-to-cell communication

1988 • 119 citations

Progesterone, Androstenedione, Testosterone, Estrone, and Estradiol Synthesis in Hamster Ovarian Follicle Cells

1975 • 118 citations

Transforming Growth Factor β and Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Promote Rat Granulosa Cell Proliferation*

1988 • 118 citations

OVARIAN TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-α GENE EXPRESSION: IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL LOCALIZATION TO THE THECAINTERSTITIAL CELLS

1987 • 113 citations

Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Selectively Stimulates Cholesterol Side-Chain Cleavage Expression in Ovarian Theca-lnterstitial Cells

1990 • 113 citations

Basic fibroblast growth factor as a regulator of ovarian granulosa cell differentiation: a novel non-mitogenic role

1988 • 97 citations

Transforming growth factor beta regulates the inhibitory actions of epidermal growth factor during granulosa cell differentiation.

1986 • 88 citations

Fibroblast growth factor as an intraovarian hormone: differential regulation of steroidogenesis by an angiogenic factor

1986 • 86 citations

Changes in ovarian morphology and serum hormones in the rat after treatment with dehydroepiandrosterone

1991 • 86 citations

Follicle-stimulating hormone enhances somatomedin C binding to cultured rat granulosa cells. Evidence for cAMP dependence.

1986 • 84 citations

Characterization and Regulation of a Specific Cell Membrane Receptor for Somatomedin-C/Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in Cultured Rat Granulosa Cells*

1988 • 82 citations

Growth factors and their action in vivo and in vitro

1983 • 78 citations

Theca Cells may be Present at the Outset of Follicular Growth1

1991 • 72 citations

Transforming Growth Factor-Alpha in the Adult Bovine Ovary: Identification in Growing Ovarian Follicles1

1989 • 71 citations

Effect of hypophysectomy and gonadotropin treatment on follicular development and ovulation in the hamster

1974 • 67 citations

Role of FSH in regulating granulosa cell division and follicular atresia in rats

1978 • 64 citations

Transforming growth factor‐α attenuates the acquisition of aromatase activity by cultured rat granulosa cells

1987 • 64 citations

The Production of Transforming Growth Factor-β Activity by Rat Granulosa Cell Cultures*

1989 • 60 citations

Insulin-Like Growth Factors (IGF5) as Autocrine/Paracrine Regulators of Granulosa Cell Differentiation and Growth: Studies with a Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibody to IGF-I1

1989 • 57 citations

Substratum-growth factor collaborations are required for the mitogenic activities of activin and FGF on embryonal carcinoma cells.

1991 • 56 citations

Growth Factors Regulate Immunoreactive Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Production by Cultured Porcine Granulosa Cells*

1988 • 53 citations

Plasma lipoproteins stimulate progestin production by rat ovarian granulosa cells cultured in serum free medium

1980 • 45 citations

Transforming Growth Factor-β Elicits Shape Changes and Increases Contractility of Testicular Peritubular Cells1

1990 • 43 citations

Fibronectin as a Marker of Granulosa Cell Cytodifferentiation

1985 • 41 citations

The Potential Relevance of Epidermal Growth Factor and Transforming Growth Factor Alpha to Ovarian Physiology

1989 • 41 citations

Transforming growth factor‐alpha augments meiotic maturation of cumulus cell‐enclosed mouse oocytes

1991 • 38 citations

Cytoskeleton in TFG-β- and bFGF-modulated endothelial monolayer repair

1991 • 35 citations

Novel Ovarian Regulatory Peptides: Inhibin, Activin, and Follistatin

1990 • 33 citations

Potential Relevance of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I to Ovarian Physiology: From Basic Science to Clinical Application

1989 • 31 citations

Intraovarian Control Mechanisms

1982 • 29 citations

Intraovarian Regulation of Granulosa-Cell Replication

1982 • 28 citations

Intra-ovarian control mechanisms

1984 • 24 citations

Stimulation of fibronectin production by TGF‐β₁ is independent of effects on cell proliferation: The example of bovine adrenocortical cells

1990 • 19 citations

Cultivation of rat granulosa cells in a serum-free chemically defined medium — a useful model to study lipoprotein metabolism

1988 • 16 citations

Fibroblast Growth Factor: Involvement in Early Embryonic Development and Ovarian Function

1989 • 15 citations

Identification of the glucocorticoid suppressible mitogen from rat hepatoma cells as an angiogenic platelet-derived growth factor A-chain homodimer.

1991 • 13 citations

Human Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Preparations Contain a Separate Activity which Potentiates Follicle- Stimulating Hormone-Mediated Induction of Luteinizing Hormone Receptor in Cultured Rat Granulosa Cells: Evidence for Transforming Growth Factor-β*

1988 • 12 citations

Surface binding, uptake and fate of cationic ferritin in a steroid producing ovarian cell

1983 • 12 citations

Regulatory Actions of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor, IGF-I (Somatomedin-C), on Sterol Metabolism by Ovarian Cells

1989 • 4 citations