Mouse oocyte meiotic resumption and polar body extrusion in vitro are differentially influenced by FSH, epidermal growth factor and meiosis-activating sterol

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1988 • 356 citations

Chemical structure of sterols that activate oocyte meiosis

1995 • 354 citations

Oocyte Maturation Involves Compartmentalization and Opposing Changes of cAMP Levels in Follicular Somatic and Germ Cells: Studies Using Selective Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors

1996 • 350 citations

Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activity in Cumulus Cells Is Essential for Gonadotropin-Induced Oocyte Meiotic Resumption and Cumulus Expansion in the Mouse

2002 • 235 citations

Hypoxanthine and Adenosine in Murine Ovarian Follicular Fluid: Concentrations and Activity in Maintaining Oocyte Meiotic Arrest

1985 • 214 citations

Oocyte-dependent activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (ERK1/2) in cumulus cells is required for the maturation of the mouse oocyte–cumulus cell complex

2003 • 203 citations

Cumulus cells of oocyte-cumulus complexes secrete a meiosis-activating substance when stimulated with FSH

1997 • 176 citations

Rodent oocytes express an active adenylyl cyclase required for meiotic arrest

2003 • 154 citations

Role of Phosphodiesterase Type 3A in Rat Oocyte Maturation1

2001 • 152 citations

Differential Effects of Specific Phosphodiesterase Isoenzyme Inhibitors on Bovine Oocyte Meiotic Maturation

2002 • 148 citations

Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Induces a Gap Junction-Dependent Dynamic Change in [cAMP] and Protein Kinase A in Mammalian Oocytes

2002 • 145 citations

Phosphodiesterase 3 inhibitors suppress oocyte maturation and consequent pregnancy without affecting ovulation and cyclicity in rodents.

1998 • 130 citations

Human Oocytes Reversibly Arrested in Prophase I by Phosphodiesterase Type 3 Inhibitor In Vitro1

2003 • 100 citations

Meiosis-activating sterol promotes resumption of meiosis in mouse oocytes cultured in vitro in contrast to related oxysterols [In Process Citation]

1998 • 96 citations

Regulation of Oocyte Maturation

1988 • 93 citations

Metabolic Coupling and Ligand-Stimulated Meiotic Maturation in the Mouse Oocyte-Cumulus Cell Complex1

1991 • 92 citations

Acquisition of Meiotic Competence in Growing Mouse Oocytes Is Controlled at both Translational and Posttranslational Levels

1997 • 87 citations

Dissociation between the inhibitory and the stimulatory action of cAMP on maturation of rat oocytes

1988 • 80 citations

Protein Kinase C and Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade in Mouse Cumulus Cells: Cross Talk and Effect on Meiotic Resumption of Oocyte1

2004 • 78 citations

Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Maturation of Mouse Oocytes After Treatment with Synthetic Meiosis-Activating Sterol In Vitro1

1999 • 73 citations

A gap-junction-mediated signal, rather than an external paracrine factor, predominates during meiotic induction in isolated mouse oocytes

2001 • 62 citations

Role of Meiosis-Activating Sterols in Rat Oocyte Maturation: Effects of Specific Inhibitors and Changes in the Expression of Lanosterol 14α-Demethylase During the Preovulatory Period1

2001 • 59 citations

Meiosis-Activating Sterol and the Maturation of Isolated Mouse Oocytes1

2001 • 55 citations

Effects of ketoconazole on ovulatory changes in the rat: implications on the role of a meiosis-activating sterol

1998 • 48 citations

Physiology of meiosis-activating sterol: endogenous formation and mode of action

2003 • 41 citations

Meiosis-activating sterol protects oocytes from precocious chromosome segregation

2003 • 30 citations

Synthesis of FF-MAS from lithocholic acid

2000 • 13 citations