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

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1992 • 1,239 citations

Microtubules and the endoplasmic reticulum are highly interdependent structures.

1986 • 633 citations

Disruption of c-mos causes parthenogenetic development of unfertilized mouse eggs

1994 • 471 citations

The Biology and Chemistry of Fertilization

1987 • 395 citations

Chemical structure of sterols that activate oocyte meiosis

1995 • 354 citations

Mos is required for MAP kinase activation and is involved in microtubule organization during meiotic maturation in the mouse

1996 • 309 citations

Regulation of meiotic metaphase by a cytoplasmic maturation-promoting factor during mouse oocyte maturation

1988 • 270 citations

Non-spindle microtubule organizing centers in metaphase II-arrested mouse oocytes.

1985 • 255 citations

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1997 • 247 citations

Meiotic competence acquisition is associated with the appearance of M-phase characteristics in growing mouse oocytes

1991 • 226 citations

Hypoxanthine is the principal inhibitor of murine oocyte maturation in a low molecular weight fraction of porcine follicular fluid.

1985 • 216 citations

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

1985 • 214 citations

Quantitative studies of changes in cortical granule number and distribution in the mouse oocyte during meiotic maturation

1988 • 188 citations

Microtubule mediation of cytoplasmic and nuclear maturation during the early stages of resumed meiosis in cultured mouse oocytes.

1991 • 186 citations

Centrosome and microtubule dynamics during meiotic progression in the mouse oocyte

1991 • 184 citations

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

1997 • 176 citations

HAMMOND MEMORIAL LECTURE

1977 • 172 citations

Precocious loss of cortical granules during mouse oocyte meiotic maturation and correlation with an egg-induced modification of the zona pellucida

1990 • 168 citations

The Influence of Glucose, Cumulus Cells, and Metabolic Coupling on ATP Levels and Meiotic Control in the Isolated Mouse Oocyte

1995 • 165 citations

“Spontaneous” hardening of the zona pellucida of mouse oocytes during in vitro culture

1982 • 162 citations

Specific changes in the pattern of protein synthesis during meiotic maturation of mammalian oocytes in vitro.

1977 • 131 citations

SPERM PENETRATION IN VITRO OF MOUSE OOCYTES AT VARIOUS TIMES DURING MATURATION

1972 • 124 citations

Polyadenylation and deadenylation of maternal mRNAS during oocyte growth and maturation in the mouse

1994 • 123 citations

Changes in the Distribution of Mouse Oocyte Cortical Granules and Ability to Undergo the Cortical Reaction during Gonadotropin-stimulated Meiotic Maturation and Aging in Vivo1

1990 • 115 citations

Alterations to the microtubular cytoskeleton and increased disorder of chromosome alignment in spontaneously ovulated mouse oocytes aged in vivo: an immunofluorescence study

1986 • 108 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

Involvement of the Cytoskeleton in the Movement of Cortical Granules during Oocyte Maturation, and Cortical Granule Anchoring in Mouse Eggs

1998 • 93 citations

The CBA mouse as a model for age-related aneuploidy in man: studies of oocyte maturation, spindle formation and chromosome alignment during meiosis

1988 • 85 citations

INHIBITION OF DENUDED MOUSE OOCYTE MEIOTI.C MATURATION BY FORSKOLIN, AN ACTIVATOR OF ADENYLATE CYCLASE

1983 • 83 citations

Concepts of development

1974 • 77 citations

Functions of Egg Cortical Granules

1985 • 70 citations

Immunofluorescent anti-tubulin staining of spindles during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro

1978 • 70 citations

Gametes - The Oocyte

1995 • 69 citations

Can developmentally significant spatial patterning of the egg be discounted in mammals?

1996 • 69 citations

Meiotic Inhibition ‐ Molecular Control of Meiosis

1989 • 68 citations

Trichlorfon exposure, spindle aberrations and nondisjunction in mammalian oocytes

1998 • 67 citations

Protein phosphatases control MAP kinase activation and microtubule organization during rat oocyte maturation.

1997 • 63 citations

Oocyte donation: the legislative framework in Western Europe

1998 • 62 citations

Chloral hydrate induced spindle aberrations, metaphase I arrest and aneuploidy in mouse oocytes

1995 • 56 citations

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

1998 • 48 citations

Synthesis of zymosterol, fecosterol, and related biosynthetic sterol intermediates

1989 • 43 citations

6 Gonadotropin-lnduced Resumption of Oocyte Meiosis and Meiosis-Activating Sterols

1998 • 37 citations

Patterns of polypeptide synthesis in mouse oocytes during germinal vesicle breakdown and during maintenance of the germinal vesicle stage by dibutyryl cAMP

1981 • 35 citations

Spontaneous cortical granule release and alteration of zona pellucida properties during and after meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes

1993 • 29 citations

Effect of cyclic AMP on the isolated human oocyte — cumulus complex

1993 • 28 citations

Development of preimplantation rabbit embryos after in-vitro culture and embryo transfer: An electron microscopic study

1988 • 25 citations

Strain difference in the timing of meiosis resumption in mouse oocytes: involvement of a cytoplasmic factor(s) acting presumably upstream of the dephosphorylation of p34^cdc2kinase

1997 • 14 citations

New developments in human embryology offer a new dimension to clinical reproductive medicine

1998 • 3 citations