Meiotic maturation

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Sagata, N., Oskarsson, M., Copeland, T Brumbaugh, J and Vande Woude, G. F. (1988). Function of c-mos proto-oncogene product in meiotic maturation in Xenopus oocytes. Nature 335 519-525. 

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Shuttleworth, J., Godfrey, R., and Colman, A. (1990). p40wo,J, a cdc2-related protein kinase involved in negative regulation of meiotic maturation of Xenopus oocytes. EMBOJ. 9 3233-3240. 

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Clarke, H. J., and Masui, Y. (1983). The induction of reversible and irreversible chromosome decondensation by protein synthesis inhibition during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes. Dev. Biol. 97 291-301. 

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Wasserman, W. J., and Masui, Y. (1975). Effect of cycloheximide on a cytoplasmic factor initiating meiotic maturation in Xenopus oocytes. Exp. Cell Res. 91 381-388. Wood, T. G., McGeady, M. L., Blair, D. G., and Vande Woude, G. F. (1983). Long terminal repeat enhancement of -mos transforming activity identification of essential regions. J. Virol. 46 726-736. 

Zhao, X., Batten, B., Singh, B., and Arlinghaus, R. B. (1990). Requirement of the c-mos protein kinase for murine meiotic maturation. Oncogene 5 1727-1730. 

Lohka MJ, Hayes MK, Mailer JL 1988 Purification of maturation-promoting factor, an intracellular regulator of early mitotic events. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 85 3009—3013 Mailer JL, Butcher FR, Krebs EG 1979 Early effects of progesterone on levels of cyclic adenosine 3 5 -monophosphate in Xenopus oocytes. J Biol Chem 254 579-582 Masui Y 1967 Relative roles of the pituitary, follicle cells, and progesterone in the induction of oocyte maturation in Ranapipiens. J Exp Zool 166 365-375 Masui Y, Markert CL 1971 Cytoplasmic control of nuclear behavior during meiotic maturation of frog oocytes. J Exp Zool 177 129-145... 

Kalab P, Kubiak JZ, Verlhac MH, Colledge WH, Maro B 1996 Activation of p90Kk during meiotic maturation and first mitosis in mouse oocytes and eggs MAP kinase-independent and dependent activation. Development 122 1957—1964 Kubiak JZ, Weber M, dePennart H, Winston N, Maro B 1993 The metaphase II arrest in mouse oocytes is controlled through microtubule-dependent destruction of cyclin B in the presence of CSF. EMBO J 12 3773-3778... 

Verlhac MH, de Pennart H, Maro B, Cobb MH, Clarke HJ 1993 MAP kinase becomes stably activated at metaphase and is associated with microtubule-organizing centers during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes. Dev Biol 158 330-340 Verlhac MH, Kubiak JZ, Clarke HJ, Maro B 1994 Microtubule and chromatin behavior follow MAP kinase activity but not MPF activity during meiosis in mouse oocytes. Development 120 1017-1025... 

Winston N J 1997 Stability of cyclin B protein during meiotic maturation and the first mitotic cell division in mouse oocytes. Biol Cell 89 211-219 Winston NJ, Maro B 1995 Calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II is activated transiently in ethanol-stimulated mouse oocytes. Dev Biol 170 350-352 Winston NJ, Bourgain-Guglielmetti F, Ciemerych MA et al 2000 Early development of mouse embryos null mutant for the cyclin A2 gene occurs in the absence of maternally derived cyclin A2 gene products. Dev Biol 223 139-153... 

Zhu, Y., Rice, C. D., Pang, Y. et al. Cloning, expression, and characterization of a membrane progestin receptor and evidence it is an intermediary in meiotic maturation of fish oocytes. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 100 2231-2236, 2003. 

The presence of Li+ results in the reversible inhibition of the hormone-induced meiotic maturation of starfish oocytes [226], and also reverses the inhibitory effect of forskolin on the spontaneous resumption of meiosis in uncoated mouse oocytes in vitro [227]. In the latter case, the effect of Li+ upon the adenylate cyclase response occurs only after it has been activated by forskolin. 

Impaired ovulation and oocyte meiotic maturation Jablonka-Shariff and Olson (1998)... 

Jablonka-Shariff, A. and Olson, L.M.,77 e role of nitric oxide in oocyte meiotic maturation and ovulation meiotic abnormalities of endothelial nitric oxide synthase knock-out mouse oocytes, Endocrinology 1998, 139, 2944-2954. 

As previously described for the male reproductive toxicity, the class of toxicants affecting germ cells can alter the structure of genetic material (chromosomal aberrations, alterations in meiosis, DNA synthesis, and replication). Mature oocytes have a DNA repair capacity different from that of mature sperm, but this capacity decreases at the period of meiotic maturation. 

Greeley, M.S., Jr., H. Hols and R.A. Wallace. Changes in size, hydration and low molecular weight osmotic effectors during meiotic maturation of Fundulus oocytes in vivo. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 100A 639-647, 1991. 

Maturation-Promoting Factor (MPF) Stimulates Meiotic Maturation of Oocytes and Mitosis in Somatic Cells... 

When G2-arrested Xenopus oocytes are removed from the ovary of an adult female frog and treated with progesterone, they undergo meiotic maturation, the process of ooc3rte mat uration from a G2-arrested oocyte to the egg arrested in metaphase of meiosis II (see Figure 21-5). Microinjectlon of c3rtoplasm from eggs arrested In metaphase of meiosis II Into G2-arrested oocytes stimulates the oocytes to mature Into... 

A EXPERIMENTAL FIGURE 21-6 A diffusible factor in arrested Xenopus eggs promotes meiotic maturation. When 5 percent of the cytoplasm from an unfertilized Xenopus egg arrested in metaphase of meiosis II is microinjected into a G2-arrested oocyte (step lEI), the oocyte enters meiosis I (step B) and proceeds to metaphase of meiosis II (step B), generating a mature egg in the absence of progesterone. This process can be... 

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