Mouse Oocyte Mitogenic Activity Is Developmentally Coordinated throughout Folliculogenesis and Meiotic Maturation

Growth differentiation factor-9 is required during early ovarian folliculogenesis

1996 • 1,618 citations

Mutations in an oocyte-derived growth factor gene (BMP15) cause increased ovulation rate and infertility in a dosage-sensitive manner

2000 • 1,100 citations

Paracrine Actions Of Growth Differentiation Factor-9 in the Mammalian Ovary

1999 • 605 citations

Bovine oocyte diameter in relation to maturational competence and transcriptional activity

1995 • 467 citations

Bone Morphogenetic Protein-15

2000 • 421 citations

Growth Differentiation Factor-9 Stimulates Proliferation but Suppresses the Follicle-Stimulating Hormone-Induced Differentiation of Cultured Granulosa Cells from Small Antral and Preovulatory Rat Follicles1

2000 • 358 citations

FSH-induced expansion of the mouse cumulus oophorus in vitro is dependent upon a specific factor(s) secreted by the oocyte

1990 • 353 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

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

Recombinant Growth Differentiation Factor-9 (GDF-9) Enhances Growth and Differentiation of Cultured Early Ovarian Follicles*

1999 • 331 citations

Murine Oocytes Suppress Expression of Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Messenger Ribonucleic Acid by Granulosa Cells1

1997 • 298 citations

Oogenesis: Chromatin and microtubule dynamics during meiotic prophase

1990 • 293 citations

Mouse Oocytes Promote Proliferation of Granulosa Cells from Preantral and Antral Follicles in Vitro1

1992 • 234 citations

In VivoTreatment with GDF-9 Stimulates Primordial and Primary Follicle Progression and Theca Cell Marker CYP17 in Ovaries of Immature Rats¹

2000 • 232 citations

Oocyte-Secreted Factor(s) Determine Functional Differences Between Bovine Mural Granulosa Cells and Cumulus Cells1

2000 • 208 citations

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

1990 • 195 citations

Role of the Ovum in Follicular Luteinization

1970 • 191 citations

Oocyte Regulation of Kit Ligand Expression in Mouse Ovarian Follicles

1999 • 188 citations

Mouse oocytes regulate granulosa cell steroidogenesis.

1993 • 162 citations

Hyaluronic acid synthesis by mural granulosa cells and cumulus cells in vitro is selectively stimulated by a factor produced by oocytes and by transforming growth factor-beta.

1990 • 133 citations

Comparison of Recombinant Growth Differentiation Factor-9 and Oocyte Regulation of KIT Ligand Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Expression in Mouse Ovarian Follicles1

2000 • 131 citations

Localization of growth differentiation factor-9 (GDF-9) mRNA and protein in rat ovaries and cDNA cloning of rat GDF-9 and its novel homolog GDF-9B

1999 • 128 citations

Morphological and functional changes accompanying the acquisition of meiotic competence in ovarian goat oocyte

1994 • 107 citations

Mouse Oocytes Regulate Granulosa Cell Steroidogenesis Throughout Follicular Development

1998 • 105 citations

Mouse Oocytes Inhibit Plasminogen Activator Production by Ovarian Cumulus and Granulosa Cells

1995 • 84 citations

Patterns of [3H] thymidine Incorporation Differ in Immature Rats and Mature, Cycling Rats1

1986 • 84 citations

Dimeric Inhibin A and B Production Are Differentially Regulated by Hormones and Local Factors in Rat Granulosa Cells*

1999 • 62 citations

Growth Promoting Activity of Oocytes on Granulosa Cells Is Decreased upon Meiotic Maturation

1998 • 44 citations

Effect of Cell-to-Cell Contact on In Vitro Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis and Apoptosis Responses of Bovine Granulosa Cells to Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I and Epidermal Growth Factor1

2000 • 41 citations

Insulin-like growth factor-II stimulates human granulosa-luteal cell proliferation in vitro

1994 • 40 citations

Gene Expression in Abnormal Ovarian Structures of Ewes Homozygous for the Inverdale Prolificacy Gene1

2000 • 36 citations

Nucleolar structure and RNA synthesis in mammalian oocytes.

1989 • 32 citations