Changes in expression of connexin 43 gap junction messenger ribonucleic acid and protein during ovarian follicular growth.

Connexin43: a protein from rat heart homologous to a gap junction protein from liver.

1987 • 1,111 citations

Gap junctions between the oocyte and companion follicle cells in the mammalian ovary.

1976 • 608 citations

Cell-to-cell communication and ovulation. A study of the cumulus-oocyte complex.

1978 • 543 citations

Interactions between Somatic Cells and Germ Cells Throughout Mammalian Oogenesis1

1990 • 510 citations

Granulosa Cell Maturation in the Rat: Increased Binding of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Following Treatment with Follicle-Stimulating Hormonein Vivo¹¹

1974 • 398 citations

Gap junction formation in myometrium: control by estrogens, progesterone, and prostaglandins

1980 • 352 citations

Transient Expression of Progesterone Receptor Messenger RNA in Ovarian Granuiosa Cells after the Preovulatory Luteinizing Hormone Surge

1991 • 335 citations

Intercellular communication between granulosa cells and mouse oocytes: Existence and possible nutritional role during oocyte growth

1982 • 287 citations

An Inhibitory Influence of Granulosa Cells and Follicular Fluid upon Porcine Oocyte Meiosisin Vitro¹

1975 • 284 citations

Gap junctions, electrotonic coupling, and intercellular communication.

1978 • 267 citations

Modulation of gap junction transcript and protein expression during pregnancy in the rat.

1990 • 259 citations

Chemical Signals that Regulate Mammalian Oocyte Maturation

1984 • 249 citations

Distribution of binding sites for human chorionic gonadotropin in the preovulatory follicle of the rat.

1975 • 229 citations

Permeability of junctions between animal cells

1977 • 226 citations

Fine Morphology of the Follicle Wall and Follicle Cell-Oocyte Association1

1974 • 183 citations

A comparison between oocyte growth in coculture with granulosa cells and oocytes with granulosa cell‐oocyte junctional contact maintained in vitro

1979 • 182 citations

Biochemical studies of mammalian oogenesis: Metabolic cooperativity between granulosa cells and growing mouse oocytes

1981 • 172 citations

Differential modulation of rat follicle cell gap junction populations at ovulation

1987 • 145 citations

Changes in Hormone Levels and Gap Junctions in the Rat Uterus During Pregnancy and Parturition

1982 • 134 citations

A quantitative cytochemical study of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and ? 5-3?-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in the Membrana granulosa of the ovulable type of follicle of the rat

1979 • 90 citations

Steroidogenesis in Porcine Atretic Follicles: Loss of Aromatase Activity in Isolated Granulosa and Theca1

1985 • 82 citations

IDENTIFICATION OF CYTOCHROME P-450, AND ITS DISTRIBUTION IN THE MEMBRANA GRANULOSA OF THE PREOVULATORY FOLLICLE, USING QUANTITATIVE CYTOCHEMISTRY1

1978 • 79 citations

Response of Granulosa Cell Gap Junctions to Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) at Ovulation

1981 • 77 citations

Roles of cell junctions in gametogenesis and in early embryonic development

1988 • 76 citations

Relationships between Histological Signs of Atresia, Steroids in Follicular Fluid, and Gonadotropin Binding in Individual Bovine Antral Follicles during Postpartum Anovulation1

1987 • 35 citations

Changes in Follicular Steroidogenic Enzymes following the Preovulatory Surge of Gonadotropins and Experimentally-Induced Atresia1

1986 • 33 citations

Studies on follicular atresia: role of gonadotropins and gonadal steroids in regulating cathepsin-D activity of preovulatory follicles in the rat

1989 • 27 citations

Preendocytotic alterations in cumulus cell gap junctions precede meiotic resumption in the rat cumulus-oocyte complex

1990 • 25 citations