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

The Physiology of Reproduction

1988 • 7,765 citations

Endocrine regulation of gametogenesis in fish.

1994 • 747 citations

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

1978 • 543 citations

Reproductive endocrinology, surgery, and technology

1996 • 501 citations

Hormonal and follicular factors affecting maturation of sheep oocytes in vitro and their subsequent developmental capacity

1977 • 444 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

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

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

1972 • 252 citations

Rat oocyte maturation in vitro : Relief of cyclic AMP inhibition by gonadotropins

1978 • 251 citations

Modulation of cell-to-cell communication in the cumulus-oocyte complex and the regulation of oocyte maturation by LH

1981 • 240 citations

Gonadotropin Action on Cultured Graafian Follicles: Induction of Maturation Division of the Mammalian Oocyte and Differentiation of the Luteal Cell

1974 • 223 citations

Xenopus oocytes and the biochemistry of cell division

1990 • 182 citations

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

1997 • 176 citations

The effect of hypoxanthine on mouse oocyte growth and development in vitro: Maintenance of meiotic arrest and gonadotropin-induced oocyte maturation

1987 • 171 citations

Induction of meiosis in fetal mouse testis in vitro

1976 • 158 citations

The Ubiquitously Expressed Human CYP51 Encodes Lanosterol 14α-Demethylase, a Cytochrome P450 Whose Expression Is Regulated by Oxysterols

1996 • 153 citations

Midcycle administration of a progesterone synthesis inhibitor prevents ovulation in primates.

1996 • 145 citations

Suppression of Ovulation Rate by Antibodies to Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator and α₂-Antiplasmin*

1989 • 131 citations

Inhibition of Ovulation in Rats with Epostane, an Inhibitor of 3 -Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase

1984 • 101 citations

SERUM GONADOTROPHIN LEVELS IN PRO-OESTROUS RATS IN RELATION TO THE RESUMPTION OF MEIOSIS BY THE OOCYTES

1972 • 99 citations

Sterol 14-Demethylase P450 (P45014DM*) Is One of the Most Ancient and Conserved P450 Species

1996 • 97 citations

Preovulatory effects of the progesterone antagonist mifepristone (RU486) in mice

1991 • 85 citations

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

1988 • 80 citations

Cumulus cells secrete a meiosi-inducing substance by stimulation with forskolin and dibutyric cyclic adenosine monophosphate

1994 • 79 citations

Molecular Mechanisms in Ovulation

1994 • 70 citations

Possible involvement of lipoxygenase products of arachidonic acid pathway in ovulation

1983 • 68 citations

THE TIME SEQUENCE OF OVUM MATURATION IN THE RAT

1972 • 65 citations

The Relationship between Ovarian Progesterone and Proteolytic Enzyme Activity during Ovulation in the Gonadotropin-treated Immature Rat

1992 • 64 citations

Induction of maturation of rat follicle‐enclosed oocyte by forskolin

1983 • 59 citations

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

1978 • 58 citations

OOCYTIC MEIOSIS IN CULTURED RAT FOLLICLES DURING INHIBITION OF STEROIDOGENESIS

1976 • 57 citations

Induction of meiotic maturation of follicle-enclosed oocytes of rabbits by a transient increase followed by an abrupt decrease in cyclic AMP concentration

1992 • 45 citations

Sterol 14-Demethylase P450 Activity Expressed in Rat Gonads: Contribution to the Formation of Mammalian Meiosis-Activating Sterol

1996 • 44 citations

Inhibition of Ovulation by Inhibition of Steroidogenesis in Immature Rats

1971 • 42 citations

Is resumption of meiosis in the human preovulatory oocyte triggered by a meiosis-inducing substance (MIS) in the follicular fluid?

1984 • 38 citations

Stimulatory role of cyclic adenosine monophosphate as a mediator of meiotic resumption in rabbit oocytes.

1992 • 28 citations

Steroids and follicular rupture at ovulation

1987 • 23 citations

Meiosis-inducing substances in human preovulatory follicular fluid related to time of follicle aspiration and to the potential of the oocyte to fertilize and cleave in vitro

1985 • 19 citations

Evidence for the contribution of a sterol 14-reductase to the 14α-demethylation of lanosterol by yeast

1986 • 18 citations

Effects of anti-progesterone compound RU486 on ovulation in immature mice treated with PMSG/hCG

1994 • 7 citations

Blockade of Ovulation in Rabbits by RU-486, a Competitive Progesterone Antagonist.

1996 • 3 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations