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

Autocrine Secretion and Malignant Transformation of Cells

1980 • 1,370 citations

Synthesis of messenger RNAs for transforming growth factors alpha and beta and the epidermal growth factor receptor by human tumors.

1987 • 895 citations

Production and auto-induction of transforming growth factor-α in human keratinocytes

1987 • 870 citations

Transforming Growth Factor-α: a More Potent Angiogenic Mediator than Epidermal Growth Factor

1986 • 856 citations

Maturation in vitro of Mouse, Sheep, Cow, Pig, Rhesus Monkey and Human Ovarian Oocytes

1965 • 835 citations

Cell migration is essential for sustained growth of keratinocyte colonies: The roles of transforming growth factor-α and epidermal growth factor

1987 • 703 citations

Epidermal growth factor-like transforming growth factor. II. Interaction with epidermal growth factor receptors in human placenta membranes and A431 cells.

1983 • 484 citations

Transforming growth factors produced by retrovirus-transformed rodent fibroblasts and human melanoma cells: amino acid sequence homology with epidermal growth factor.

1983 • 403 citations

Sarcoma growth factor from conditioned medium of virally transformed cells is composed of both type alpha and type beta transforming growth factors.

1983 • 381 citations

Induction of maturation in cumulus cell‐enclosed mouse oocytes by follicle‐stimulating hormone and epidermal growth factor: Evidence for a positive stimulus of somatic cell origin

1988 • 356 citations

Developmental expression of transforming growth factors alpha and beta in mouse fetus.

1988 • 272 citations

The developmental capacity of mouse oocytes that matured spontaneously in vitro is normal

1984 • 261 citations

IN-VITRO INDUCTION OF MEIOTIC DIVISION IN FOLLICLE-ENCLOSED RAT OOCYTES BY LH, CYCLIC AMP AND PROSTAGLANDIN E2

1972 • 252 citations

Transforming growth factor‐α: Structure and biological activities

1986 • 250 citations

Specificity of Epidermal Growth Factor Action on Maturation of the Murine Oocyte and Cumulus Oophorus in Vitro1

1989 • 238 citations

Epidermal Growth Factor Induces Maturation of Rat Follicle-Enclosed Oocytes*

1985 • 187 citations

Transforming Growth Factor-α Gene Expression and Action in the Seminiferous Tubule: Peritubular Cell-Sertoli Cell Interactions*

1989 • 172 citations

A comparison of the binding of epidermal growth factor to cultured granulosa and luteal cells.

1978 • 151 citations

Developmental Expression of Rat Transforming Growth Factor-α mRNA

1985 • 147 citations

Transforming Growth Factor-β Stimulates Meiotic Maturation of the Rat Oocyte

1988 • 125 citations

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

1988 • 119 citations

Developmental expression of rat transforming growth factor-alpha mRNA.

1985 • 114 citations

Hormonal Control of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors by Gonadotropins during Granulosa Cell Differentiation

1987 • 114 citations

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

1987 • 113 citations

Ovarian Thecal/Interstitial Cells Produce an Epidermal Growth Factor-Like Substance*

1987 • 91 citations

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

1986 • 88 citations

Alpha-transforming growth factor secreted by untransformed bovine anterior pituitary cells in culture. II. Identification using a sequence-specific monoclonal antibody.

1986 • 86 citations

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

1989 • 60 citations

ROLE OF CYCLIC AMP IN OOCYTE MATURATION AND GLYCOLYSIS IN THE PRE-OVULATORY RAT FOLLICLE

1978 • 58 citations

Rat ovarian epidermal growth factor receptors: Characterization and hormonal regulation

1983 • 58 citations

Distribution of epidermal growth factor receptors in the rat ovary

1986 • 52 citations