The temporal relationship between maturational events in the cumulus oophorus and the
oocyte of adult rats was examined. The time of preovulatory surge of LH was estimated from …

… to examine the effects of the following factors on IVF in pigs: oocyte maturational stage, the
… that the presence of cumulus cells and not the maturational stage is mainly responsible for …

… Different effects of the cumulus during in vitro culture could be a reason for the different
cytoplasmic maturation rates obtained between A 1 , A 2 , B 1 and B 2 subpopulations. The …

… The cumulus cells that surround the mammalian oocyte … We have examined cumulus-oocyte
complexes of PMSG-primed … of the cumulus cells and the oocyte were analyzed in thin …

… Therefore, in this study, we investigated the effect of kinase modulation on the IVM of oocytes
derived from class I and class II COCs and increased the developmental competence and …

… The experiments described in this paper were undertaken to investigate whether
gonadotropins have the same effect on rat cumulus-oocyte communication and to examine the …

… In vitro maturation (IVM) of oocytes has still a negative impact on the developmental …
cumulus proteome of individual cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) with and without maturational …

… were fixed for evaluation of their nuclear maturational stage. … Effect of vitrification on
cumulus cell expansion. The degree of expansion was classified as grades 0 (no detectable …

… using isolated oocyte–cumulus cell complexes cultured in … , the effects of LH on maturation
of both the oocyte and cumulus … the oocyte plays a central role in both maturational processes, …

… exert their effects via receptors located on cumulus cells. … the number of cumulus cells,
cumulus–oocyte complexes were … g/l BSA in PBS, and the cumulus cells were separated by vortex …