Unveiling the critical role of the exocyst complex in mouse oocyte growth Date: January 30, 2025 Source: University of Tsukuba Summary: Communication between oocytes and granulosa cells is ...

Completion of the first meiosis is an essential prerequisite for producing a functionally normal egg for fertilization and embryogenesis, but the precise mechanisms governing oocyte meiotic ...

it was hypothesized that two kinds of protein kinases, a serine/threonine kinase and a tyrosine kinase, might function as direct upstream activators for MAP kinases. In this paper, however, we ...

The articles in this special issue highlight the diversity and complexity of research into reproductive health, including the need for a better understanding of the fundamental biology of reproduction ...

Current advances in the use of bioluminescence assays for drug discovery: an update of the last ten years.

The development of multicellular organisms and the maintenance of homeostasis in adulthood are achieved by complex control of basic cellular processes such as the maintenance of pluripotent stem cells ...

Background The effect of complex alleles in cystic fibrosis (CF) is poorly defined for the lack of functional studies. Methods We studied 70 homozygous, compound heterozygous or heterozygous for CFTR ...

Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, United States ...

By chance, he learned of a different type of giant chromosome from a textbook photograph showing that newt oocyte nuclei have large, loop-rich “lampbrush” chromosomes (LBCs) that had never been ...