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Aging
Apoptosis
Apoptosis in Reproductive Biology
Capacitation and Acrosome Reaction
Comparative Reprduction and Genetics
Corpus Luteum
Cryopreservation
Endocrine, Paracrine and Extracellular Matrix Involvement in Implantation
Epididymis and Sperm Maturation
Fertility Regulation
Fertilization
Follicular Development
Follicular Development: Cellular Mechanisms
Follicular Development: Regulation of Follicular Growth
From IVM to Nuclear Transfer
Gene Regulation
Gonadal Function
Gonadal Steroids
Gonadal Steroids and Gonadal Function
Gonadotropin and Pituitary
Growth Factors
Hormone Receptors
Implantation and Early Development
IVF and ART
Maintenance of Pregnancy: Pregnancy and Parturition
Meiosis
Molecular Control of Oocyte Meiosis and Ovulation
Multiple Levels of Gene Regulation
Neuroendocrinology
New Insights about Preimplantation Development
Novel Signal Transduction Mechanisms in Reproductive Tissues
Nutrition and Reproduction
Oocyte Development
Other
Ovulation
Pregnancy and Parturition
Preimplantation Embryo/Fetus
Prostate
Puberty
Reproductive Behavior
Reproductive/Developmental Toxicology
Reproductive Immunology
Sex Determination
Signal Transduction
Sperm Function and Fertilization
Sperm Motility
Spermatogenesis
Spermatogenesis and Epididymal Maturation
Toxicology
Uterus/Oviduct
Uterus/Oviduct: Proteinases and Proteinase Inhibitors
Uterus/Oviduct: Regulatory Molecules and Secretory Products

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Aging - Topic Categories
211 - OVARIAN STEROIDOGENIC RESPONSIVENESS TO GONADOTROPIN STIMULATION IN YOUNG AND MIDDLE-AGED FEMALE RATS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Apoptosis - Topic Categories
411 - STUDY ON BCL-2 GENE EXPRESSION IN APOPTOTIC HUMAN THECAL CELLS INDUCED BY TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-1 PLUS TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR- IN VITRO
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
412 - GLYCOBIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN GRANULOSA CELLS DURING FOLLICULAR ATRESIA IN THE PORCINE OVARY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
413 - THE EFFECT OF GLUCOCORTICOIDS ON OVARIAN STEROIDOGENESIS AND APOPTOSIS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
414 - FREQUENCY, ULTRASTRUCTURAL FEATURES, AND RELEVANCE OF APOPTOSIS IN THE BOVINE PLACENTA
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
415 - APOPTOSIS IN BOVINE OOCYTES AND IN PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYOS: THE ROLE OF Bcl-2 AND Bax GENES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
416 - INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS IN RAT OVARIAN THECA CELLS BY A PEPTIDE MIMIC OF APOLIPOPROTEIN E
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
417 - FAS-MEDIATED APOPTOSIS OF BOVINE GRANULOSA CELLS (GC) IN DEFINED MEDIA IS PREVENTED BY INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 (IGF).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
418 - ASCORBIC ACID REGULATION IN EGGS AND ZYGOTES OF THE HAMSTER
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Apoptosis in Reproductive Biology - Topic Categories
403 - PRL AND TGF1 PLAY OPPOSITE ROLES IN THE REGULATION OF APOPTOSIS IN THE RAT DECIDUA.
1:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125
404 - UP-REGULATION OF P27 AND PKC ACTIVATION ARE EARLY EVENTS IN ANTIPROGESTIN-INDUCED APOPTOSIS IN DECIDUALIZED STROMAL CELLS.
1:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125
405 - CAR1, A NOVEL MEMBER OF THE TNF RECEPTOR FAMILY THAT MEDIATES OVARIAN GRANULOSA CELL APOPTOSIS.
2:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125
406 - BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR (bFGF) INHIBITS THE APOPTOTIC DEATH OF SPONTANEOUSLY IMMORTALIZED GRANULOSA CELLS (SIGCs) THROUGH A PROTEIN KINASE C-DEPENDENT PATHWAY.
2:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125
407 - SURVIVIN, A NOVEL ANTI-APOPTOSIS GENE, IS EXPRESSED IN THE RAT OVARY
2:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125
408 - INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF)-INDUCED APOPTOSIS IN THE MOUSE BLASTOCYST IS REPRODUCED BY BLOCKING THE IGF-1 RECEPTOR AND IS REVERSED BY EXPOSURE TO TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-.
2:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125
409 - EXPRESSION OF TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR mRNAs AND INDUCTION OF DNA FRAGMENTATION IN THE BOVINE CORPUS LUTEUM.
3:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125
410 - CASPASE-3 ACTIVATION IN LEYDIG CELL APOPTPSIS INDUCED BY ETHANE DIMETHANESULFONATE.
3:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 125

Capacitation and Acrosome Reaction - Topic Categories
212 - PURIFICATION AND PARTIAL PEPTIDE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF BOAR SPERMINOGEN.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
213 - Ca2+/GABA-INDUCED POLYPHOSPHOINOSITIDE (PPI) BREAKDOWN AND ACROSOME REACTION (AR) IN GUINEA PIG SPERMATOZOA.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
214 - ROLE OF PROGESTERONE AND CHOLESTEROL IN ACROSOME REACTION OF CRYOPRESERVED SPERM
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
215 - EVALUATION OF THE INTEGRITY OF THE RAT SPERM ACROSOME DURING IN VITRO CAPACITATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Comparative Reprduction and Genetics - Topic Categories
13 - EFFECTS OF HORMONES, SEX-REVERSAL, & COMPLETE OR PARTIAL GONADECTOMY ON REGENERATION OF ABLATED GONADS IN RAINBOW TROUT.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
14 - INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE OF SILASTIC IMPLANTS TO MANIPULATE YOLK STEROID CONCENTRATIONS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
15 - MYO-D AS A MARKER FOR PROLIFERATING CELLS IN MUSCLES OF FETAL AND NEONATAL LAMBS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
16 - THE ROLE OF PROLACTIN IN TESTICULAR RECRUDESCENCE IN THE BLACK BEAR.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
17 - PLASMA LEVELS OF APOLIPOPROTEIN A AND TISSUE EXPRESSION OF ITS RECEPTOR, SR-BI, IN THE FRESHWATER TURTLE, Chrysemys picta.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
18 - OBSERVATION OF MARE OVARY BY THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERNAL STRUCTURE MICROSCOPY (3D-ISM)
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Corpus Luteum - Topic Categories
19 - OXIDIZED-LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN INHIBITS CYCLIC AMP PRODUCTION IN PORCINE LUTEAL CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
20 - STUDIES ON THE ACUTE EFFECTS OF TNF IN RAT CL CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
21 - CHARACTERIZATION OF IMMUNE CELL POPULATIONS IN THE BOVINE CORPUS LUTEUM.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
22 - FAILURE OF PROSTAGLANDIN F2 TO INDUCE AN IMMUNE RESPONSE IN CORPORA LUTEA OF HYPOPHYSECTOMIZED RATS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
23 - IDENTIFICATION AND ONTOGENY OF 11–HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE TYPE 2 ACTIVITY IN BOVINE CORPORA LUTEA.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
24 - LONG-R3-ILGF-I PREVENTS ESTROGEN-INDUCED REDUCTION OF PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS IN CULTURED OVINE GRANULOSA CELLS FROM SMALL FOLLICLES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
25 - GAP JUNCTIONAL INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION (GJIC) IN CULTURED LUTEAL CELLS FROM EWES TREATED WITH LH AND/OR AN ANALOG OF PROSTAGLANDIN F2 (PGF) DURING THE MID-LUTEAL PHASE OF THE ESTROUS CYCLE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
26 - PRESENCE OF OVARIAN/LUTEAL GnRH AND BRADYKININ AND THEIR ROLE DURING PREGNANCY AND PARTURITION
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
27 - LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE STIMULATES MACROPHAGE RECRUITMENT INTO RAT CORPORA LUTEA.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
216 - LUTEINIZATION CHANGES CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 mRNA FROM PKA- TO PKC-DEPENDENT REGULATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
217 - IMMUNLOCALIZATION OF TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES 1, 2, AND 3 DURING PROSTAGLANDIN F2-INDUCED LUTEOLYSIS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
218 - PHOSPHORYLATION OF MARCKS PROTEIN IN MEMBRANE AND CYTOPLASM OF BOVINE LUTEAL CELLS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
219 - LOCALIZATION OF MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITORY FACTOR (MIF) AND EXPRESSION OF MIF mRNA IN THE OVARY AND UTERUS OF PREGNANT AND NONPREGNANT SHEEP.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
220 - PROLACTIN UP-REGULATION OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR GENE TRANSCRIPTION IS TYROSINE KINASE DEPENDENT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
221 - CHARACTERIZATION OF PRAP AS A NOVEL 17-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE (17HSD) ENZYME
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
222 - LUTEOLYTIC RESPONSIVENESS IN PORCINE CORPORA LUTEA IS CHARACTERIZED BY INTRALUTEAL PROSTAGLANDIN F2 (PGF) PRODUCTION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
223 - Nur77 – MEDIATED REGULATION OF OVARIAN 20-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE (20-HSD) GENE TRANSCRIPTION
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
419 - ENDOTHELIN-1 GENE EXPRESSION AND IMMUNOLOCALIZATION IN THE OVINE CORPUS LUTEUM
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
420 - INVOLVEMENT OF LUTEAL FIBROBLASTS IN THE PROCESS OF LUTEOLYSIS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
421 - EVIDENCE FOR TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR- RECEPTOR AND ITS POSSIBLE ROLES IN MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS FROM BOVINE CORPUS LUTEUM
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
422 - REGULATION OF ANGIOTENSIN II, ENDOTHELIN-1 AND THEIR RECEPTORS IN MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS DERIVED FROM THE BOVINE CORPUS LUTEUM
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
423 - INTRALUTEAL RELEASE IN VIVO OF ANGIOTENSIN II, PROSTAGLANDINS AND PROGESTERONE DURING THE EARLY LUTEAL PHASE IN COWS: EFFECTS OF ANGIOTENSIN II, ENDOTHELIN-1 AND ATRIAL NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
424 - A POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT OF LUTEAL PROSTAGLANDIN F2 IN LOCAL REGULATION OF BOVINE CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION DURING EARLY LUTEAL PHASE OF THE ESTROUS CYCLE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
425 - IN PROSTAGLANDIN F2-TREATED LUTEAL CELL CULTURES, INHIBITION OF STEROIDOGENESIS, BUT NOT PHOSPHOINOSITIDE METABOLISM, DEPENDS ON PROLACTIN
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
426 - APOPTOSIS INDUCED BY THE ANTIGESTAGEN RU486 IN THE RAT CORPUS LUTEUM OF PREGNANCY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
599 - CHANGES IN EXPRESSION OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) AND ANGIOPOIETIN-1 (ANG-1) IN THE PRIMATE CORPUS LUTEUM (CL) DURING THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE.
3:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216
600 - MANIPULATION OF ANGIOGENESIS IN THE PRIMATE CORPUS LUTEUM
4:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216
601 - EFFECTS OF LUTENIZING HORMONE (LH) AND OXYGEN (O2) LEVELS ON VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) mRNA EXPRESSION BY OVINE LUTEAL CELLS IN CULTURE.
4:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216
602 - INTRALUTEAL ADMINISTRATION OF A NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE BLOCKER STIMULATES PROGESTERONE SECRETION AND PROLONGS THE FUNCTIONAL LIFE SPAN OF THE BOVINE CORPUS LUTEUM
4:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216
603 - CYTOKINE-INITIATED STAT SIGNALING IN BOVINE LUTEAL CELLS.
4:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216
604 - PGF2-INDUCED CHANGES IN BOVINE LUTEAL CELLS RESULT IN INCREASED ABILITY OF LUTEAL CELLS TO STIMULATE CLASS II MHC-DEPENDENT LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION IN VITRO.
5:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216
605 - THE PROESTROUS PROLACTIN SURGE IS NOT THE SOLE INITIATOR OF REGRESSIVE CHANGES IN CORPORA LUTEA OF CYCLING RATS.
5:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216
606 - THE PROSTAGLANDIN F2 RECEPTOR KNOCK-OUT MOUSE PROVIDES EVIDENCE FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF 20-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE IN PARTURITION
5:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 216

Cryopreservation - Topic Categories
28 - QUANTIFICATION OF BSP-A1/-A2, BSP-A3 AND BSP-30-kDa PROTEINS, AND THEIR ROLE IN SPERM CAPACITATION AND STORAGE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
29 - CRYOPRESERVATION OF BOVINE SEMEN DECREASES ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSES IN SPERMATOZOA
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
30 - COMPARISON OF OPEN PULLED STRAW VERSUS OPEN PULLED CAPILLARY PIPETTE VITRIFICATION IN MOUSE EMBRYOS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
31 - CRYOPRESERVATION OF SEMEN FROM THE DRILL BABOON (Mandrillus leucophaeus).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
32 - POST-COITAL SEMEN COLLECTION AND CRYOPRESERVATION IN THE ENDANGERED SUMATRAN RHINOCEROS (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
33 - SEMEN CRYOPRESERVATION IN THE RHESUS MONKEY (Macaca mulatta)
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
34 - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HYPO-OSMOTIC SWELLING TEST AND SPERM PENETRATION ASSAY IN THAWED RAM SPERMATOZOA
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Endocrine, Paracrine and Extracellular Matrix Involvement in Implantation - Topic Categories
371 - GBP, AN INTERFERON-REGULATED GENE, IS INDUCED IN HUMAN ENDOMETRIUM WITHIN THE PUTATIVE WINDOW OF IMPLANTATION.
1:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133
372 - THE FULL cDNA SEQUENCE OF MOUSE CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN-D 9k (CALBINDIN-D 9k) AND ITS EXPRESSION IN MOUSE UTERUS AT THE TIME OF EMBRYO IMPLANTATION.
1:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133
373 - ISOLATION OF p400, A UNIQUE GALECTIN-3 BINDING PROTEIN FROM THE MURINE UTERO-PLACENTAL COMPLEX
2:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133
374 - INTERLEUKIN -1 (IL-1) INDUCES THE EXPRESSION OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN-1 (IGFBP-1) DURING DECIDUALIZATION IN THE PRIMATE
2:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133
375 - INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1 REGULATION OF PORCINE ENDOMETRIAL SPERMIDINE/SPERMINE N1-ACETYLTRANSFERASE (SSAT) GENE EXPRESSION AT PERI-IMPLANTATION
2:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133
376 - EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR FAMILY IN RHESUS MONKEY UTERUS DURING THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE AND EARLY PREGNANCY
2:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133
377 - PROGESTERONE INDUCES OSTEOPONTIN EXPRESSION IN OVINE ENDOMETRIAL GLANDS
3:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133
378 - EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX AND GROWTH FACTOR INTERACTIONS SUGGEST A SELF-LIMITING MECHANISM OF TROPHOBLAST INFILTRATION.
3:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 133

Epididymis and Sperm Maturation - Topic Categories
224 - MOLECULAR CLONING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF P34H, A HUMAN EPIDIDYMAL SPERM PROTEIN.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
225 - A SIGNIFICANT ROLE FOR MACROPHAGE SCAVENGER RECEPTORS IN PROCESSING SPERM IN MOUSE EPIDIDYMIS AFTER VASECTOMY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
226 - CO-INCUBATION WITH EPIDIDYMAL CELL CULTURES INCREASE SURVIVAL AND MOTILITY OF CRYOPRESERVED BOVINE SPERM: PARTIAL CHARACTERIZATION OF EPIDIDYMAL PROTEINS SECRETED IN VITRO.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
227 - ADDITION OF SPECIFIC METABOLITES TO BULL EPIDIDYMAL CELL CULTURE MEDIUM ENHANCE SURVIVAL AND MOTILITY OF FROZEN-THAWED BOVINE SPERM.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
228 - DEPRIVATION OF FSH SUPPORT AFFECTS CHROMATIN STATUS AND ACROSOMAL GLYCOPROTEIN CONCENTRATION OF SPERM OF MONKEY AND MAN
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Fertility Regulation - Topic Categories
427 - RESEARCH OF THE COMBINED TREATMENT OF ACUPUNCTURE AND BROMOCRIPTINE ON AMENORRHEA-GALACTORRHEA
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
428 - ANTIBODIES-BINDING TO CYTOKINE RECEPTORS ON THE SURFACE OF HUMAN SPERMATOZOA JUDGED BY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY AND FLOW CYTOMETRY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
429 - THE AZIRIDINE PRECURSOR, 2-(4-ACETOXYPHENYL)-2-CHLORO-N-METHYL-ETHYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE, MAY DISRUPT THE ESTROUS CYCLE OF RATS BY INTERACTING AT SEVERAL GLUCOCORTICOID SITES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
430 - A GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE AGONIST (GnRH-A) LINKED TO POKEWEED ANTIVIRAL PROTEIN (PAP) DECREASES THE ABILITY OF THE PITUITARY GLAND TO SECRETE LH.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
431 - MUCIN PROTEIN INCREASES IN CONCENTRATION IN SECRETIONS OF HUMAN ENDOCERVIX AT MID CYCLE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
432 - IN VITRO SPERM-EGG BINDING ASSAY FOR USE IN EVALUATING EFFICACY OF DIFFERENT ZONA PELLUCIDA (ZP) IMMUNOGENS FOR CONTRACEPTION IN WHITE-TAILED DEER (Odecoileus virginianus).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
433 - THE RELATIONSHIP OF SPERM NUCLEAR SHAPE TO FERTILITY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Fertilization - Topic Categories
35 - EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THE PRESENCE OF INTERNAL CALCIUM STORES IN MAMMALIAN SPERM.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
36 - IS BIOLOGICALLY DEAD SPERM REPRODUCTIVELY DEAD?
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
37 - INTRACELLULAR pH CHANGES DURING PARTHENOGENETIC ACTIVATION OF PORCINE OOCYTES ARE SODIUM–INDEPENDENT WHEN USING 200µM THIMEROSAL OR CALCIUM IONOPHORE, AND SODIUM–DEPENDENT WHEN USING 7% ETHANOL.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
38 - INHIBITION OF SPERM-OOCYTE INTERACTION BY AN ANTIBODY TO A PORCINE OOCYTE PLASMA MEMBRANE PROTEIN (POMP).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
39 - SODIUM/CALCIUM EXCHANGE IN PORCINE OOCYTES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
40 - ROLE OF PROGESTERONE AND CHOLESTEROL IN IN VITRO EMBRYO PRODUCTION AND ZONA-BINDING ASSAY IN CATTLE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
41 - MICROTUBULE ORGANIZATION IN RABBIT OOCYTES, ZYGOTES AND INTRACYTOPLASMIC INJECTION WITH HUMAN SPERM.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
42 - LOCALIZATION OF A 56-kDa PORCINE OOCYTE MEMBRANE PROTEIN (POMP) INVOLVED IN SPERM-OOCYTE BINDING.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
43 - INDUCTION OF PIG OOCYTE ACTIVATION VIA AN INCREASE IN TYROSINE KINASE ACTIVITY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
434 - EFFECTS OF PORCINE OVIDUCT-SPECIFIC GLYCOPROTEIN (pOSP) ON FERTILIZATION AND POLYSPERMY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
435 - A 55 kDa PIG SPERM PROTEIN INHIBITS SPERM-OOCYTE BINDING IN VITRO.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
436 - MICROTUBULE ORGANIZATION AND CHROMOSOME CONFIGURATION OF MOUSE METAPHASE (MI) OOCYTES ELECTROFUSED WITH PRIMARY SPERMATOCYTES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
437 - HUMAN ZONA PELLUCIDA PROTEIN 1 (ZP1) EXPRESSED IN THE OOCYTES AND GRANULOSA CELLS OF TRANSGENIC MOUSE OVARIES LACKS NATIVE HUMAN ZP GLYCOSYLATION
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
438 - ANTIBODIES SPECIFIC TO RECOMBINANT HUMAN ZP PROTEINS LOCALIZE ZP ANTIGENS TO THE OOCYTE AND GRANULOSA CELLS OF MAMMALIAN OVARIES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
439 - THE RESERVIBLE PHOSPHOPROTEINS DRIVE GERMINAL VESICLE BREAKDOWN (GVBD) AND PRONUCLEUS FORMATION IN BOVINE OOCYTES FOLLOWING MATURATION AND FERTILIZATION IN VITRO
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Follicular Development - Topic Categories
1 - GERMINAL DISC-DERIVED EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR: A POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTOR TO FORMATION OF A PROLIFERATION GRADIENT IN CHICKEN GRANULOSA LAYER.
1:30 PM Saturday, July 31 Todd 116
44 - USE OF AN OVARIAN BIOPSY TO PREDICT SURFACE FOLLICLE NUMBERS ON THE BOVINE OVARY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
45 - EXPRESSION OF TYPE I PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE MESSENGER RIBONUCLEIC ACID IN THE RAT OVARY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
46 - FOLLICLE SELECTION IN GUINEA PIGS WITH ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION AGAINST INHIBIN -SUBUNIT IN OVULATION RATE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
47 - EXPRESSION OF LEPTIN AND ITS RECEPTORS IN RAT OVARY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
48 - EXPRESSION OF mRNA FOR THE INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF) SYSTEM DURING THE INITIATION OF OVARIAN FOLLICULAR GROWTH.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
49 - LUTEINIZING HORMONE LEVELS IN ANESTROUS SUCKLED COWS WITH AND WITHOUT DOMINANT FOLLICLE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
50 - NO EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN IS DETECTED IN THE FOLLICLES OF PREGNANT RAT OVARY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
51 - IMMUNOLOCALIZATION OF RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN AND CELLULAR RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN IN THE BOVINE OVARY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
52 - EXPRESSION OF BOVINE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR- (bER) mRNA THROUGHOUT THE FIRST FOLLICULAR WAVE IN THE OVARY AND EFFECT OF LH INFUSION ON bER mRNA EXPRESSION OF SECOND WAVE FOLLICLES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
53 - PROTEIN SYNTHESIS AND SECRETION BY PREANTRAL, EARLY ANTRAL, AND ANTRAL PORCINE FOLLICLES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
229 - DURATION OF TREATMENT WITH SHORT-TERM, LARGE DOSES OF PROGESTERONE REGULATES LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR AND AROMATASE mRNA CONTENT AND STEROID RATIO IN PERSISTENT OVARIAN FOLLICLES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
230 - CHANGES IN FOLLICULAR FLUID STEROIDS, INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS (IGFBP) AND IGFBP PROTEOLYTIC ACTIVITY DURING EQUINE FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
231 - ULTRASONICALLY-MEASURED OVARIAN FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT IN WEANED SOWS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
232 - EFFECTS OF FETAL SYMPATHECTOMY ON FOLLICULAR GROWTH AND SERUM STEROIDS LEVELS IN IMMATURE RAT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
233 - PARTICIPATION OF THE SUPERIOR OVARIAN NERVE (SON) IN THE REGULATION OF FOLLICULAR ATRESIA AND ESTRADIOL SERUM LEVELS IN JUVENILE RATS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
234 - PATTERN OF SECRETION OF IMMUNOREACTIVE INHIBIN/ACTIVIN SUBUNITS BY AVIAN FOLLICLES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
235 - INFANTILE AND JUVENILE CHANGES OF OVARIAN INHIBIN PRODUCTION IN THE FEMALE RAT.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
236 - EXPRESSION OF P450 SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE AND P450 17-HYDROXYLASE MESSAGE AND PROTEIN IN THE PRE AND POSTNATAL HAMSTER OVARY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
237 - AVIAN OVARY: MODEL TO STUDY FOLLICULAR SELECTION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
441 - EXPRESSION OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEINS IN BOVINE FOLLICLES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
442 - USE OF THE MIS PROMOTER TO TARGET tTAk EXPRESSION TO THE OVARY AND TESTIS OF TRANSGENIC MICE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
443 - GRANULOSA CELLS: A SOURCE AND A TARGET FOR wnt-SIGNALING?
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
444 - TURNOVER OF FOLLICLES, SECRETION OF INHIBIN A, GONADOTROPINS AND STEROIDS IN BEEF COWS WITH PERSISTENT FOLLICLES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
445 - NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHESIS BY PORCINE OOCYTES: ITS REGULATION AND FUNCTION DURING FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
446 - INHIBITION BY CANTHARIDIN OF STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN EXPRESSION DURING FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT IN THE RAT OVARY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
447 - FLUORESCENT OBSERVATION OF NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHESIZED BY THE PORCINE OOCYTE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
448 - INTRAFOLLICULAR EFFECTS OF PREMATURE INDUCTION OF OVULATION IN MARE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
449 - STEREOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BOVINE CUMULUS-OOCYTE COMPLEXES (COCs) ASPIRATED FROM SMALL ANTRAL FOLLICLES DURING THE DIESTROUS PHASE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Follicular Development: Cellular Mechanisms - Topic Categories
171 - FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF THE trkB NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR IN OVARIAN FOLLICLES
1:30 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130
172 - GRANULOSA CELL DIFFERENTIATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH ENHANCED EXPRESSION OF SPECIFIC AP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND ACTIVATION OF AP1 PROMOTER ELEMENTS.
1:45 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130
173 - FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE (FSH) ENHANCES INSULIN LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF-I) SURVIVAL SIGNALING IN PORCINE GRANULOSA CELLS
2:00 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130
174 - FSH STIMULATES OXYTOCIN SECRETION BY BOVINE GRANULOSA CELLS BY ACTIVATING THE PROTEIN KINASE A AND PROTEIN KINASE C SIGNALING PATHWAYS
2:15 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130
175 - SUSCEPTIBILITY OF BOVINE GRANULOSA CELLS TO FAS ANTIGEN-MEDIATED APOPTOSIS DIFFERS IN CELLS ISOLATED BEFORE OR AFTER THE LH SURGE.
2:30 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130
176 - LOCALIZATION OF mRNA FOR TISSUE INHIBITORS OF METALLOPROTEINASES (TIMPs) IN THE RAT OVARY DURING FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT.
2:45 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130
177 - PERI- AND POST-OVULATORY CHANGES IN CADHERIN EXPRESSION IN PMSG - hCG TREATED RATS.
3:00 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130
178 - FUTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF TGF- IN LUTEINIZATION
3:15 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 130

Follicular Development: Regulation of Follicular Growth - Topic Categories
567 - TWO DISTINCT POOLS OF PRIMORDIAL FOLLICLES EXIST IN RATS
3:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116
568 - SPONTANEOUS ACTIVATION OF BOVINE PRIMORDIAL FOLLICLES IS INHIBITED WHEN CORTICAL PIECES ARE GRAFTED TO CHICK EMBRYONIC MEMBRANES
4:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116
569 - INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-I AND STEM CELL FACTOR ARE NECESSARY FOR DIFFERENTIATION OF PRE-THECAL CELLS INTO MATURE THECAL CELLS
4:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116
570 - VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) STIMULATES PREANTRAL FOLLICLE GROWTH IN THE RAT.
4:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116
571 - IN VIVO EFFECTS OF HUMAN FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE (FSH) ISOFORMS ON FOLLICULAR GROWTH
4:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116
572 - COMPARISON OF FSH AND LH RESPONSE TO FOLLICLE ASPIRATION IN CATTLE SELECTED (TWINNER) AND UNSELECTED (CONTROL) FOR TWIN BIRTHS
5:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116
573 - OOCYTE-SECRETED FACTOR(S) AND TGF STIMULATE DNA SYNTHESIS IN BOVINE GRANULOSA CELLS AND ALTER THEIR RESPONSES TO FSH AND IGF-I.
5:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116
574 - A DIFFUSIBLE FACTOR PRODUCED BY LATE PRE-ANTRAL FOLLICLES INHIBITS THE GROWTH OF SIMILARLY SIZED FOLLICLES, IN VITRO.
5:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 116

From IVM to Nuclear Transfer - Topic Categories
559 - EPIGENETIC MODIFICATIONS NECESSARY FOR FULL TERM DEVELOPMENT ARE ESTABLISHED DURING OOCYTE GROWTH.
3:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 133
560 - IN VITRO DEVELOPMENT OF DOMESTIC CAT EMBRYOS AFTER RECOVERY OF OOCYTES FROM OVARIES EITHER FRESHLY COLLECTED OR STORED 24 H AT 4°C
4:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 133
561 - EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS FOR IVP OF BOVINE EMBRYOS ON BIRTH WEIGHT AND SEX RATIO OF CALVES—A FIELD STUDY
4:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 133
562 - MIXOPLOIDY IS FREQUENT AT DAY 2 - 5 IN BOVINE EMBRYOS PRODUCED IN VITRO
4:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 133
563 - THE ADDITION OF (dG-dT)15(dA-dT)14 MICROSATELLITE TO TRANSGENE INCREASES THE NUMBER OF GREEN FLUORESCENT TRANSGENIC PIG EMBRYOS.
4:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
564 - PRODUCTION OF PIG EMBRYOS BY INTRACYTOPLASMIC INJECTION OF CULTURED FETAL FIBROBLAST CELLS
5:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 133
565 - IN VITRO DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL OF NUCLEAR TRANSFER (NT) EMBRYOS FROM THE RHESUS MONKEY.
5:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 133
566 - GENETIC REPROGRAMMING OF PHOSPHOFRUCTOKINASE IN NUCLEAR TRANSFER EMBRYOS PRODUCED USING BOVINE FETAL FIBROBLASTS.
5:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 133

Gene Regulation - Topic Categories
2 - TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF HUMAN GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE RECEPTOR (GnRHR) IN HUMAN PLACENTAL CELLS
1:45 PM Saturday, July 31 Todd 116
3 - FSH-INDUCED DOWN-REGULATION OF THE FSHR GENE IN SERTOLI CELLS INVOLVES REPRESSIVE CHROMATIN STRUCTURE.
2:00 PM Saturday, July 31 Todd 116
4 - C/EBP AND SF-1 COOPERATE TO REGULATE THE StAR PROMOTER
2:15 PM Saturday, July 31 Todd 116
54 - IDENTIFICATION OF A DNA TO REGULATE TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION OF THE SPERMATID-SPECIFIC Hsp70 IN TRANSGENIC MICE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
55 - ANALYSIS OF THE UPSTREAM SEQUENCES OF THE OVINE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR GENE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
56 - ESTRADIOL REGULATES GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE (GnRH) AND GnRH RECEPTOR MESSENGER RIBONUCLEIC ACID (mRNA) LEVELS IN HUMAN GRANULOSA-LUTEAL CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
57 - THE INVOLVEMENT OF Ets TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS IN PROGESTERONE DOWNREGULATION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE-1 (MMP1)—IMPLICATIONS FOR ENDOMETRIAL REMODELLING.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
58 - SYNERGISTIC ROLE OF INSULIN/IGF-I IN LH-INDUCED StAR PROMOTER EXPRESSION IN PORCINE GRANULOSA CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
59 - EXPRESSION PATTERN OF PRION PROTEIN MESSENGER RNA IN MOUSE AND RAT TESTES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
450 - NOVEL REGULATION OF INDOLEAMINE 2,3-DIOXYGENASE GENE BY CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN (hCG) IN HUMAN SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLASTS: IMPLICATIONS SUPPORT THE PREMISE THAT hCG PREVENTS FETAL REJECTION BY THE MATERNAL IMMUNE SYSTEM
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
451 - SERTOLI CELL DIFFERENTIATION REQUIRES bHLH AND CREB TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
452 - THE NUCLEAR DEAF-1-RELATED (NUDR) DNA BINDING DOMAIN IS SUFFICIENT FOR TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSION OF THE HETERONUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN A2/B1 PROMOTER BUT NOT ACTIVATION OF THE PROENKEPHALIN PROMOTER.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
453 - PRESENCE AND REGULATION OF TELOMERASE ACTIVITY IN RAT LEYDIG CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
454 - DEVELOPMENTAL TRANSCRIPTION OF ANDROGEN RECEPTOR IN HYPOTHALAMUS-PITUITARY-TESTICULAR AXIS OF BOARS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
455 - ZERANOL STIMULATES ESTROGEN-REGULATED GENE EXPRESSION IN MCF-7 HUMAN BREAST CANCER CELLS AND NORMAL HUMAN BREAST EPITHELIAL CELLS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
456 - CCAAT/ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN (C/EBP) AND C/EBP MAY BE INVOLVED IN FSH DEPENDENT GENE EXPRESSION IN RAT SERTOLI CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
457 - ANALYSIS OF INTERFERON TAU GENE ENHANCER/SILENCER ELEMENTS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Gonadal Function - Topic Categories
60 - APOPTOSIS MEDIATES TESTICULAR REGRESSION INDUCED BY PHOTOPERIOD OR FOOD RESTRICTION IN WHITE-FOOTED MICE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
61 - MELATONIN INHIBITS THE EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN AND STEROIDOGENESIS IN MA-10 CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
62 - THE INTERACTIVE EFFECT OF FSH AND TGF ON THE SECRETION OF GELATINASE IN RAT GRANULOSA CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
63 - IN VIVO EFFECTS OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE ON TESTICULAR ENDOCRINE FUNCTION IN GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR GENE DISRUPTED MICE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
64 - CADMIUM UPREGULATES VASCULAR PERMEABILITY FACTOR (VPF) EXPRESSION IN LEYDIG CELLS AND SERTOLI CELLS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
65 - THYROID HORMONE AND LEYDIG CELL REGENERATION IN THE ADULT RAT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
66 - EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC ENZYMES IN BOAR TESTIS DURING POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
67 - EXPRESSION OF NEUROTROPIN LIGANDS (BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPIC FACTOR AND NEUROTROPIN 4/5) AND RECEPTOR (trkB) DURING EMBRYONIC AND POSTNATAL RAT TESTIS DEVELOPMENT: POTENTIAL FOR COMPENSATION BETWEEN NEUROTROPIN LIGANDS AND RECEPTORS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
68 - LOCALIZATION OF HEPARIN INTERACTING PROTEIN (HIP) IN THE RAT TESTIS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
458 - HIGHER SERUM TESTOSTERONE IN THE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR– KNOCKOUT (ERKO) MOUSE IS DUE TO INCREASED LEYDIG CELL STEROIDOGENESIS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
460 - PROBLEMS WITH OVARIAN DYSFUNCTION IN ELEPHANTS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
461 - IRF-1 EXPRESSION IN THE MARMOSET MONKEY UTERUS IS UP-REGULATED BY PROLACTIN
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
462 - STIMULATION OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) IN CULTURED BOVINE GRANULOSA-LUTEAL CELLS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
463 - QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF SPERMATOGENESIS IN THE COMMON MARMOSET (CALLITHRIX JACCHUS JACCHUS).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
464 - PROLACTIN ACTIONS IN THE RAM TESTIS: TEST OF THE PRIMING HYPOTHESIS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
465 - PARTIAL PURIFICATION OF EQUINE INHIBIN UTILIZING SYNTHETIC EQUINE INHIBIN RELATED PEPTIDES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Gonadal Steroids - Topic Categories
5 - THE DISTRIBUTION AND FUNCTION OF NPC1 PROTEIN IN CHOLESTEROL TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN GRANULOSA-LUTEIN CELLS.
2:30 PM Saturday, July 31 Todd 116
238 - EFFECTS OF DIGOXIN, DIGITOXIN, AND OUABAIN ON PROGESTERONE RELEASE BY RAT GRANULOSA CELLS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
239 - EFFECTS OF DIGITOXIN ON TESTOSTERONE SECRETION IN RATS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
240 - INHIBITION OF DIGOXIN AND DIGITOXIN ON PROGESTERONE PRODUCTION IN RAT LUTEAL CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
241 - EFFECTS OF LACTIC ACID ON TESTOSTERONE PRODUCTION BY RAT LEYDIG CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
242 - NOVEL HUMAN GRANULOSA CELL LINES AS A MODEL FOR INDUCIBLE STEROIDOGENESIS AND APOPTOSIS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
243 - LEPTIN MODULATES GLUCOCORTICOID-INDUCED OVARIAN STEROIDOGENESIS AND APOPTOSIS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
244 - DIVERSE EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC COMPONENTS IN THE PRIMATE PERIOVULATORY FOLLICLE: GONADOTROPIN VERSUS STEROID REGULAITON
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
245 - SERUM ALTERS THE EFFECT OF TESTOSTERONE ON 3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE-ISOMERASE (3HSD) IN Y-1 MOUSE ADRENAL TUMOR CELLS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
246 - PHYSIOLOGICAL RELEVANCE OF MACROPHAGE-LEYDIG CELL INTERACTIONS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
247 - RETINOIC ACID INDUCES PROGESTERONE SECRETION BY TRANSFORMED RAT GRANULOSA CELLS (DC-3).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
466 - EVIDENCE ON THE ASYMMETRIC ABILITY IN THE ESTROGEN SECRETION BY THE RAT OVARIES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
467 - EFFECT OF ETHANE 1,2-DIMETHYL SULFONATE (EDS) ON ACUTE STEROIDOGENIC REGULATORY PROTEIN (StAR) GENE EXPRESSION AND PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS IN ACTIVATED MOUSE TUMOR LEYDIG CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
468 - STEROIDOGENIC ACTIVITY OF HUMAN GRANULOSA CELLS IMMORTALIZED WITH SV40 LARGE T ANTIGEN.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
469 - AN INSULIN-SENSITIZING AGENT, TROGLITAZONE (TG), INHIBITS ANDROGEN AND ENHANCES PROGESTIN SYNTHESIS BY CULTURED PORCINE THECA CELLS STIMULATED WITH LUTEINIZING HORMONE AND/OR INSULIN: POSSIBLE INHIBITION OF 17-HYDROXYPROGESTIN-LYASE ACTIVITY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
470 - THE REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY AND ENDOCRINOLOGY OF STELLER SEA LIONS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
471 - GENETIC DIFFERENCES IN OVARIAN ANDROGEN PRODUCTION IN MICE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
472 - MULTIFACETED ACTION OF ESTRADIOL ON THE BREAST CANCER CELL CYCLE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
473 - FUNCTIONAL COMPARISONS OF ISOZYMES OF PORCINE AROMATASE OVER-EXPRESSED USING BACULOVIRUS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Gonadal Steroids and Gonadal Function - Topic Categories
195 - OPPOSITE EFFECT OF ESTRADIOL ON P45017 and PRAP/17HSD EXPRESSION IN THE RAT CORPUS LUTEUM LEADS TO DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF THESE GENES THROUGHOUT PREGNANCY
1:30 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116
196 - LH AND INSULIN SYNERGISTICALLY AMPLIFY PORCINE THECA-CELL ANDROSTENEDIONE BIOSYNTHESIS AND StAR AND 17 Alpha- HYDROXYLASE/C17-20 LYASE GENE TRANSCRIPTION
1:45 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116
197 - DIFFERENTIATION DEPENDENT EXPRESSION AND SUBCELLULAR DISTRIBUTION OF PROTEIN KINASES IN THE RAT OVARIAN CELLS
2:00 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116
198 - DYNAMICS OF GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR EXPRESSION AND TESTOSTERONE BIOSYNTHESIS IN IMMATURE RAT LEYDIG CELLS AFTER TREATMENT WITH DEXAMETHASONE IN VITRO
2:15 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116
199 - INHIBITION OF MEK-1 POTENTIATES FSH INDUCTION OF STERIODOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN mRNA IN PORCINE GRANULOSA CELLS
2:30 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116
200 - MAPPING OVULATION RATE INDUCED AND AROMATASE ACTIVITY INDUCED QTL IN CONGENIC STRAINS OF MICE.
2:45 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116
201 - PERTURBATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION BLOCKS STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY (StAR) PROTEIN PROCESSING AND STEROIDOGENESIS IN MA-10 LEYDIG CELLS.
3:00 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116
202 - ECONAZOLE AND MICONAZOLE INHIBIT STEROIDOGENESIS THROUGH A POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL REDUCTION OF STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY (StAR) PROTEIN AND INDUCTION OF LEYDIG CELL APOPTOSIS.
3:15 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 116

Gonadotropin and Pituitary - Topic Categories
69 - DEVELOPMENTAL INCREASE IN THE EXPRESSION OF GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE-II (GnRH-II) IN THE PRIMATE HYPOTHALAMUS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
70 - EFFECTS OF HYPERPROLACTINEMIA ON ALDOSTERONE SECRETION IN OVARIECTOMIZED RATS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
71 - INHIBITION OF BROMOCRIPTINE-INDUCED HYPOPROLACTINEMIA ON CORTICOSTERONE SECRETION IN MALE RATS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
72 - STRUCTURE-FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF FOLLISTATIN: ROLE OF METHIONINE RESIDUES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
73 - TIMING OF THE LH SURGE AND OVULATION FOLLOWING GnRH ADMINISTRATION IN PYGMY GOATS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
74 - SECRETION OF MONOMERIC LH IS NOT ENHANCED BY ADDITION OF A CARBOXYL TERMINAL PEPTIDE (CTP) DOMAIN
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
75 - EXPRESSION OF EQUINE GONADOTROPIN - AND FSH -SUBUNIT TRANSGENES IN CHINESE HAMSTER OVARY CELLS..
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
76 - DEVELOPMENT OF AN IN VITRO BIOASSAY FOR FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE (FSH) USING A CELL LINE EXPRESSING FSH RECEPTORS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
77 - EXPRESSION OF RECOMBINANT WHITE RHINOCEROS LH USING A DUAL EXPRESSION VECTOR
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
583 - PRESENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN CONNEXIN 43 IN THE MINK HYPHOPHYSIS
3:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276
584 - THE ORIENTATION OF THE GONADOTROPIN AND DOMAINS IN A SINGLE CHAIN AFFECTS THE HETERODIMERIC INTERACTION OF THE SUBUNITS.
4:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276
585 - PITUITARY FOLLISTATIN CONCENTRATIONS ARE SIMILAR DURING DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE OVINE ESTROUS CYCLE.
4:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276
586 - REGULATION OF THE OVINE GnRH RECEPTOR (oGnRHR) GENE BY cAMP AND STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR-1 (SF-1).
4:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276
587 - 9100 BP OF 5' FLANKING SEQUENCE FROM THE OVINE GnRH RECEPTOR (OGnRHR) GENE IS RESPONSIVE TO GnRH AND ESTRADIOL-17 IN TRANSGENIC MICE.
4:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276
588 - STRESS-LIKE LEVELS OF CORTISOL INCREASE THE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK POTENCY OF ESTRADIOL IN FEMALE SHEEP
5:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276
589 - SECRETION OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE (LH) IN RAMS CHRONICALLY TREATED WITH ANALOGS OF GONADOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE (GnRH).
5:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276
590 - DOES ENDOTOXIN INHIBIT PITUITARY RESPONSIVENESS TO GnRH PULSES?
5:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 276

Growth Factors - Topic Categories
7 - HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR/SCATTER FACTOR AND ITS RECEPTOR c-MET IN CULTURED HUMAN OVARIAN SURFACE EPITHELIUM: INFLUENCE OF FAMILY HISTORY OF OVARIAN CANCER
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
248 - C-MET RECEPTOR IS PRESENT AND TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATED IN HUMAN SPERM CELL.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
249 - INTERACTION OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTORS AND THEIR BINDING PROTEINS IN PORCINE GRANULOSA CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
250 - DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF CONNEXIN-26, -32 AND -43 GAP JUNCTION PROTEINS IN THE PORCINE CERVIX DURING RELAXIN-INDUCED GROWTH AND REMODELING.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
251 - TESTICULAR EXPRESSION OF VEGF AND ITS RECEPTORS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
252 - MEDIA CONDITIONED BY GRANULOSA CELLS FROM BOVINE FOLLICLES STIMULATES PERICYTE MIGRATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
253 - MECHANISM OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN (IGFBP)-1 MEDIATED STIMULATION OF EXTRAVILLOUS TROPHOBLAST MIGRATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
254 - MECHANISM OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF)-II MEDIATED STIMULATION OF EXTRAVILLOUS TROPHOBLAST MIGRATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
255 - OVARIAN EXPRESSION OF Mac25/IGFBP-7 AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR/IGFBP-8 DURING PORCINE FOLLICULAR PHASE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
474 - GONADOTROPIN REGULATION OF NORMAL OVARIAN SURFACE EPITHELIUM AND OVARIAN CANCER CELLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR OVARIAN CANCER
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
475 - VASCULARIZATION IN THE TAMMAR WALLABY UTERUS DURING PREGNANCY: A ROLE FOR VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
476 - EXPRESSION OF IGFBP-6 AND IGFBP-8 mRNAs IN THE MOUSE OVARY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
477 - MODULATION OF THE INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF) –AXIS IN THE BABOON DURING EARLY PREGNANCY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
478 - GROWTH FACTOR REGULATION OF ENDOMETRIAL SECRETORY LEUKOCYTE PROTEASE INHIBITOR EXPRESSION
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
479 - IDENTIFICATION OF A NOVEL PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR-LIKE GENE FALLOTEIN IN THE HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TRACT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
480 - EXPRESSION OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS (TGFs) BY BOVINE STROMAL CELLS (SC) AND NORMAL AND TUMORIGENIC OVARIAN SURFACE EPITHELIAL CELLS (OSE).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Hormone Receptors - Topic Categories
481 - EXPRESSION OF HORMONE RECEPTORS DURING OVINE ENDOMETRIAL GLAND DEVELOPMENT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
482 - DIRECT VISUALIZATION OF MEMBRANE-MEDIATED UPTAKE AND TRANSLOCATION OF ESTROGEN-BSA: COLLOIDAL GOLD BY HEP G2 CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
483 - QUANTITATION OF ANDROGEN RECEPTOR (AR) GENE EXPRESSION IN MALE REPRODUCTIVE TISSUES USING REAL TIME, FLUORESCENCE BASED QUANTITATIVE PCR (Q-PCR)
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
484 - DISTRIBUTION OF ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR mRNAs IN THE ENDOMETRIUM OF CYCLING AND EARLY PREGNANT MARES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
485 - SEASONAL CHANGES IN HEPATIC PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR mRNA AND VITELLOGENIN mRNA IN THE FRESH WATER TURTLE, Chrysemys picta
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
486 - ROLE OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR (ER) IN WHITE ADIPOSE TISSUE (WAT) DEPOSITION IN MICE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
488 - GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR EXPRESSION ON HUMAN GRANULOSA CELLS ASSESSED BY FLOW CYTOMETRY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
489 - QUANTIFICATION OF RAINBOW TROUT ESTROGEN RECEPTOR mRNA BY QUANTITATIVE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION-POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION USING AN INTERNAL STANDARD
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
490 - HUMAN FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE (hFSH) RECEPTOR N-TERMINUS AS AN ASSEMBLED hFSH BINDING SITE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Implantation and Early Development - Topic Categories
8 - POTENTIAL REGULATION OF MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING BY ESTROGEN RECEPTOR VIA INDUCTION OF Rab11 IN UTERINE GLANDS DURING IMPLANTATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
9 - STEROID HORMONE AND INTERFERON REGULATE THE EXPRESSION OF A NOVEL GENE IN THE ENDOMETRIUM DURING IMPLANTATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
78 - THE MOUSE BLASTOCYST IS A TARGET FOR HISTAMINE LIGAND-RECEPTOR SIGNALING.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
79 - PORCINE PLACENTAL 11-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE (11-HSD) DURING EARLY GESTATION
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
80 - REGULATION OF EMBRYONIC GENOME ACTIVATION AND COMPACTION BY THE TRANSFER OF CYTOPLASM TREATED WITH INHIBITORS OF PROTEIN SYNTHESIS OR PROTEIN KINASE IN MOUSE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
81 - LIF, LIFR, AND GP130 IN RHESUS MONKEY UTERUS DURING THE MENSTRAL CYCLE AND EARLY PREGNANCY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
82 - MONOCLONAL NON-SPECIFIC SUPRESSOR FACTOR (MNSF): ONE OF THE GENES DOWN-REGULATED AT IMPLANTATION SITES COMPARED TO INTERIMPLANTATION SITES IN THE MOUSE UTERUS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
83 - CHANGE IN TRANSCRIPTS FOR THE PROSTAGLANDIN E2 RECEPTOR SUBTYPES WITHIN THE PSEUDOPREGNANT RAT ENDOMETRIUM.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
84 - CHANGES IN GLUCOSE-REGULATED PROTEIN (GRP78) mRNA IN THE RAT ENDOMETRIUM DURING THE PERIIMPLANTATION PERIOD.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
85 - H ANTIGEN EXPRESSION BY OVINE ENDOMETRIAL CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
86 - THREE-DIMENSIONAL CULTURE SYSTEM OF ENDOMETRIAL CELLS FOR STUDYING THE HUMAN IMPLANTATION MECHANISM
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
256 - MECHANISMS REGULATING EMBRYO IMPLANTATION IN THE PIG.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
257 - TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) EXPRESSION BY RELAXIN IN NORMAL HUMAN ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
258 - ANTI-PEPTIDE ANTIBODY TO HUMAN GLYCODELIN (PLACENTAL PROTEIN 14) RECOGNIZES MOUSE GLYCODELIN.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
259 - TROPHOBLAST INVASION DURING EARLY PLACENTATION IN RHESUS MONKEY IS ASSOCIATED WITH PLASMIN-RELATED FIBRINOLYSIS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
260 - LUTEAL REGULATION AND THE TIMING OF EMBRYO IMPLANTATION IN THE CORN MOUSE, Calomys musculinus (MURIDAE, SIGMODONTINAE)
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

IVF and ART - Topic Categories
261 - THE EFFECTS OF SERUM SOURCE AND HORMONE SUPPLEMENTATION ON GOAT OOCYTE MATURATION, FERTILIZATION AND EARLY EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NON-BREEDING SEASON
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
262 - REMODELING OF CHROMATIN AND CYTOPLASMIC ORGANELLES IN PORCINE ENUCLEATED OOCYTES FOLLOWING INJECTION OF PORCINE OR MOUSE CUMULUS CELLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
263 - EFFECT OF ADDING FOLLICULAR FLUID TO MATURATION MEDIUM, AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF NUCLEAR PROGRESSION, ON IN VITRO DEVELOPMENT OF BOVINE OOCYTES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
264 - SPERM BOAR VARIABILITY IN HOMOLOGOUS IN VITRO PENETRATION ASSAY OVER A 2-YEAR PERIOD
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
265 - EFFECTS OF FSH-TREATMENT ON FOLLICULAR DEVELOPMENT, OOCYTE RETRIEVAL, AND IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF) IN EWES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
266 - DEVELOPMENT OF EQUINE OOCYTES MATURED IN VITRO AND FERTILIZED AFTER PARTIAL ZONA REMOVAL (PZR)
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
267 - TRANSFER OF EQUINE GAMETES TO RABBIT OVIDUCTS: AN APPROACH TO PRODUCE EQUINE EMBRYOS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
268 - ENZYMATIC REMOVAL OF EPIZOOTIC HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS (EHDV-2) FROM IN VITRO PRODUCED BOVINE ZYGOTES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
269 - CAT OOCYTE METABOLISM INDICATES FERTILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL POTENTIAL
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
270 - EFFECTS OF HORMONAL STIMULATION AND ANIMAL AGE ON IN VITRO MATURATION, FERTILIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN PREPUBERTAL PIGS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
271 - IN VITRO EMBRYO PRODUCTION IN ADDAX (Addax nasomaculatus), AN ENDANGERED DESERT ANTELOPE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Maintenance of Pregnancy: Pregnancy and Parturition - Topic Categories

Meiosis - Topic Categories
10 - ROLE OF THE CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASE 3A IN MAMMALIAN OOCYTE MATURATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
272 - REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES REVERSE INHIBITION OF OOCYTE MATURATION BY ISOBUTYL METHYLXANTHINE (IBMX) OR DIBUTYRYL CYCLIC AMP (db-cAMP).
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
273 - POST TRANSLATIONAL PHOSPHORYLATION OF THE GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN CONNEXIN 43 (Cx43) DURING NORMAL POSTNATAL TESTICULAR DEVELOPMENT AND FOLLOWING SPONTANEOUS AUTOIMMUNE ORCHITIS IN THE MINK
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
274 - SENSITIVITY OF MOUSE OOCYTES TO DELAYS IN MEIOTIC MATURATION AND ANEUPLOIDY FOLLOWING NICOTINE EXPOSURE IN VIVO AND IN VITRO.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
275 - MEIOSIS ACTIVATING STEROL (MAS) INDUCED RESUMPTION OF MEIOSIS USES A DIFFERENT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY COMPARED TO SPONTANEOUS-INDUCED OOCYTE MATURATION IN MICE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
277 - PREGNANT MARE SERUM GONADOTROPIN AND FOLLICULAR FLUID PROMOTE THE EXPRESSIONS OF HYALURONAN SYNTHASE AND CD44 MESSENGER RNAs IN PORCINE CUMULUS-OOCYTE COMPLEXES DURING IN VITRO MATURATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
278 - SPINDLE DYNAMICS IN LIVING MOUSE OOCYTES DURING MEIOTIC MATURATION, AGING AND COOLING.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
279 - ADENOSINE BLOCKS HORMONE-INDUCED MEIOTIC MATURATION BY SUPPRESSING PURINE DE NOVO SYNTHESIS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Molecular Control of Oocyte Meiosis and Ovulation - Topic Categories
387 - IDENTIFICATION AND LOCALIZATION OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL COFACTORS, CREB-BINDING PROTEIN AND P300, IN MEIOTIC-INCOMPETENT AND COMPETENT MURINE OOCYTES
1:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116
388 - GONADOTROPIN-INDUCED GERMINAL VESICLE BREAKDOWN IN THE MOUSE REQUIRES GENE TRANSCRIPTION
1:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116
389 - THE PROTEASOME IS INVOLVED IN THE FIRST METAPHASE TO ANAPHASE TRANSITION OF MEIOSIS IN RAT OOCYTES.
2:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116
390 - EXPOSURE OF BOVINE OOCYTES TO PERTURBANTS OF THE PENTOSE PHOSPHATE PATHWAY AFFECTS SUBSEQUENT EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT.
2:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116
391 - REGULATION OF INTERLEUKIN-8 (IL-8) EXPRESSION IN HUMAN FOLLICLES OF NATURAL CYCLES
2:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116
392 - EXPRESSION OF Bax AND Bcl-2 mRNA IN GRANULOSA CELLS DURING THE PERIOVULATORY INTERVAL IN MACAQUES: ROLE OF PROGESTERONE
2:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116
393 - OVARIAN EXPRESSION OF A METALLOPROTEINASE-DISINTEGRIN FAMILY PROTEIN DURING OVULATION IN THE PMSG-PRIMED IMMATURE RAT MODEL.
3:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116
394 - OVULATION OF IN VITRO CULTURED OVARIAN FOLLICLES IS DIFFERENT FOR PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR AND CYCLOOXYGENASE-2 DEFICIENT MICE.
3:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 116

Multiple Levels of Gene Regulation - Topic Categories
379 - EXPRESSION OF THE ANTIVIRAL PROTEIN Mx IN THE OVINE UTERUS IS REGULATED BY ESTROGEN (E), PROGESTERONE (P) AND INTERFERON-tau (IFN).
1:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276
380 - INHIBITION OF STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR-1 EXPRESSION THROUGH OVEREXPRESSION OF A TRUNCATED FORM IN PRIMARY BOVINE ADRENOCORTICAL CELLS
1:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276
381 - CELL-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION OF THE FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE RECEPTOR (FSHR) GENE IS REGULATED BY METHYLATION.
2:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276
382 - SUPPRESSION OF ETS-2 INDUCED TRANSACTIVATION OF INTERFERON-TAU PROMOTER BY OCT-3/4.
2:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276
383 - DISSECTION OF THE SP-10 PROMOTER AND IDENTIFICATION OF TESTIS-SPECIFIC DNA-PROTIEN INTERACTIONS
2:30 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276
384 - THE LACTATING MAMMARY GLAND MODULATES THE STABILITY OF CASEIN mRNA BY CHANGING THE POLY(A) TAIL LENGTH.
2:45 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276
385 - CHARACTERISATION OF mRNA POLYADENYLATION CHANGES DURING BOVINE OOCYTE MATURATION AND EFFECT OF IVM CONDITIONS
3:00 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276
386 - INCREASED LEVELS OF THE POLYADENYLATION / CLEAVAGE STIMULATORY FACTOR CstF 64 FACILITATE THE CLEAVAGE AT AN ALTERNATIVE 3’ END PROCESSING SITE OF TB-RBP mRNAs IN MALE GERM CELLS.
3:15 PM Monday, August 2 Todd 276

Neuroendocrinology - Topic Categories
280 - SEASONAL CHANGES IN LH PULSATILITY IN THE OVARIECTOMIZED EWE ARE NOT ABOLISHED BY THYROIDECTOMY
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
281 - ENDOGENOUS OPIOID PEPTIDES (EOP) ACT VIA -RECEPTORS IN THE OVINE MEDIOBASAL HYPOTHALAMUS (MBH) TO INHIBIT LH PULSE FREQUENCY DURING THE LUTEAL PHASE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
282 - EXAMINATION OF THE REGULATION OF GnRH SECRETION AND mRNA SYNTHESIS BY PMA IN GT1-7 CELLS: UTILIZATION OF THE mRNA DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY TECHNIQUE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
283 - OPIOIDERGIC AND ADRENERGIC REGULATION OF GONADOTROPIN SECRETION IN THE HEIFER CALF
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
284 - INTERACTIONS OF PHOTOPERIOD, TESTOSTERONE (T) AND NALOXONE ON GnRH AND LH PULSE PARAMETERS IN THE MALE SHEEP
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
285 - COITUS-INDUCED C-FOS mRNA EXPRESSION IN THE RABBIT BRAIN
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
286 - EFFECTS OF PHOTOPERIOD AND MELATONIN ADMINISTRATION ON THE MAGNITUDE OF COMPENSATORY TESTICULAR HYPERTROPHY (CTH) IN THE MARSH RICE RAT ORYZOMYS PALUSTRIS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
287 - LEPTIN MODULATES GnRH SECRETION FROM HYPOTHALAMIC-PREOPTIC AREA IN THE GILT
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
288 - LUTEINIZING HORMONE AND PROGESTERONE INCREASE PRIOR TO COPULATION DURING INDUCED OVULATION IN THE GRAY SHORT-TAILED OPOSSUM (Monodelphis domestica)
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

New Insights about Preimplantation Development - Topic Categories
203 - TISSUE-SPECIFIC LOCALIZATION OF AROMATASE IN THE EQUINE EMBRYO BY IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION AND IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY.
1:30 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133
204 - THE EFFECT OF THE TIMING OF OOCYTE ACTIVATION ON THE EFFICIENCY OF MOUSE CLONING USING CUMULUS CELL NUCLEI.
1:45 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133
205 - ON THE FEASIBLILITY OF RESCUING THE OXIDATION INDUCED-ZYGOTIC DEATH THROUGH NUCLEAR TRANSFER.
2:00 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133
206 - INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM TRANSIENTS OCCUR IN MOUSE PRE-IMPLANTATION EMBRYOS IN RESPONSE TO EMBRYO-DERIVED AND EXOGENOUS PLATELET-ACTIVATING FACTOR (PAF).
2:15 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133
207 - DIFFERENTIAL ANTI-APOPTOTIC EFFECT OF Bcl-2 AND Bcl-2 IN RAT BLASTOCYSTS EXPOSED TO HIGH GLUCOSE.
2:30 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133
208 - 3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY OF BOVINE EMBRYO IS REQUIRED FOR PREIMPLANTATION DEVELOPMENT
2:45 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133
209 - GENE EXPRESSION IN MOUSE 2-CELL EMBRYOS DEVELOPED IN AN OVIDUCTAL ENVIRONMENT IN VITRO
3:00 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133
210 - -AMANITIN SENSITIVE mRNA EXPRESSION DURING BOVINE EARLY DEVELOPMENT
3:15 PM Sunday, August 1 Todd 133

Novel Signal Transduction Mechanisms in Reproductive Tissues - Topic Categories
591 - A NOVEL FUNCTIONAL ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ON HUMAN SPERM MEMBRANE: INTERFERENCE WITH PROGESTERONE EFFECTS.
3:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125
592 - NEGATIVE REGULATION OF RAR BY FSH AND dbcAMP ACTING THROUGH PROTEIN KINASE A PATHWAY
4:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125
593 - AGGREGATION OF INTRINSICALLY-FLUORESCENT LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTORS IN RESPONSE TO HORMONE BINDING.
4:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125
594 - EVIDENCE THAT THE PALMITOYLATION DEFICIENT LH/hCG RECEPTOR IS HYPERPHOSPHORYLATED THROUGH ACTIVATION OF PROTEIN KINASE C
4:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125
595 - IDENTIFICATION OF FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEINS BY YEAST TWO HYBRID ANALYSIS
4:45 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125
596 - LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID INDUCED MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN LUTEINIZED THECA CELLS
5:00 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125
597 - PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR SIGNALING IN PORCINE THECAL CELLS.
5:15 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125
598 - INTRACELLULAR LOCALIZATION OF PAL31 IN RAT MAMMARY GLAND
5:30 PM Tuesday, August 3 Todd 125

Nutrition and Reproduction - Topic Categories
87 - DAILY ADMINISTRATION OF CLENBUTEROL DECREASES LEPTIN CONCENTRATIONS BUT DOES NOT INFLUENCE THE TIMING OF ANESTRUS IN MARES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
88 - PHOTOPERIODIC VERSUS METABOLIC SIGNALS AS DETERMINANTS OF SEASONAL ANESTRUS IN THE MARE.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
89 - SERUM AND PITUITARY CONCENTRATIONS OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR (IGF)-I, IGF-BINDING PROTEINS (IGFBPs), AND PITUITARY LH IN GILTS DURING FEED RESTRICTION AND RE-ALIMENTATION
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
90 - DOES A REDUCTION IN FATTY ACID AVAILABILITY SUPPRESS ESTROUS CYCLES IN ADULT FEMALE RATS?
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
91 - LEPTIN GENE EXPRESSION IS ACUTELY RESPONSIVE TO SHORT-TERM FASTING IN PREPUBERTAL HEIFERS: RELATIONSHIP TO CIRCULATING LEPTIN, INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR-1, AND LUTEINIZING HORMONE PULSATILITY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
92 - INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE VAGUS NERVE, CHOLECYSTOKININ, AND NON-ESTERIFIED FATTY ACIDS IN EWE LAMBS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
93 - EFFECT OF REDUCED CALORIC INTAKE ON THE SENSITIVITY OF LUTEINIZING HORMONE (LH) RELEASE TO NEUROPEPTIDE-Y (NPY) IN FEMALE RATS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Oocyte Development - Topic Categories
290 - GERMINAL VESICLE AND MEIOTIC DEVELOPMENT OF FETAL AND ADULT BOVINE OOCYTES RELATIVE TO FOLLICLE SIZE IN VITRO
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
291 - SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION USED TO IDENTIFY mRNA INVOLVED IN THE MATURATION OF BOVINE OOCYTES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
292 - INCREASED CULTURE TIME INCREASES NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT OF EQUINE OOCYTES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
293 - PUTATIVE VITELLOGENINS IN THE FRESH WATER MUSSEL, Elliptio complanata.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
294 - MEIOTIC INDUCTION AND METABOLIC ACTIVITY IN OOCYTE-CUMULUS CELL COMPLEXES FROM STREPTOZOTOCIN-INDUCED DIABETIC MICE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
295 - IS THE PRIMATE OOCYTE A TARGET FOR ESTROGEN ACTION?
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
296 - EFFECT OF MEDIA FORMULATION ON NUCLEAR MATURATION OF CULTURED DOG OOCYTES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
297 - IN VITRO MATURATION AND FERTILIZATION OF RHESUS MONKEY OOCYTES IN CHEMICALLY-DEFINED MEDIUM.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
298 - ACTIVIN PROMOTES NUCLEAR MATURATION IN DENUDED MOUSE OOCYTES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
299 - CHANGES IN GERMINAL VESICLE (GV) DEVELOPMENT DURING FOLLICLE MATURATION IN PIGS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
300 - COMPOSITION AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF THE ZONA PELLUCIDA OF THE RHESUS MONKEY (MACACA MULATTA) OOCYTE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
301 - ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE LEVELS OF CHINOOK SALMON EGGS FOLLOWING IN VITRO MAINTENANCE, ACTIVATION, AND FERTILIZATION.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Other - Topic Categories
552 - COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TESTICULAR ECHOTEXTURE (ET) AND TONOMETRY (TM) WITH THE SEMEN PRODUCTION AND THE NON-RETURN RATE (NRR) IN BULLS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
553 - PREGNANCIES FOLLOWING TRANSFER OF RECONSTRUCTED EMBRYOS DERIVED FROM BELE® FETAL FIBROBLASTS AND IN VITRO MATURED OOCYTES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
554 - EXPRESSION AND POLYMORPHISM WITHIN 3'UNTRANSLATED REGION OF Tim23 mRNA IN THE MOUSE MAMMARY GLAND.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
555 - RELAXIN AND TESTICULAR DESCENT IN RATS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
556 - BEHAVIOUR OF ADULT CELL NUCLEI AFTER TRANSFER INTO ENUCLEATED BOVINE OOCYTES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
557 - Y-CHROMOSOME SPECIFIC POLYMORPHISM IN THE AMELOGENIN-LIKE GENE OF CERVUS ELAPHUS NELSONI AND ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
558 - COMPARISON OF THREE ACTIVATION PROTOCOLS FOR PORCINE OOCYTES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Tuesday, August 3 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Ovulation - Topic Categories
94 - EFFECTS OF GENISTEIN ON THE EXPRESSION OF mRNA FOR TIMPs AND MMPs IN THE OVARY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
95 - SPECIFIC MECHANISM RESPONSIBLE FOR SHARP INCREASES IN PLASMA LEVELS OF IMMUNOREACTIVE INHIBIN ON THE PROCESS OF OVULATIONS IN MARES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
96 - THE LH SURGE UPREGULATES EXPRESSION OF TISSUE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR mRNA IN BOVINE PREOVULATORY FOLLICLES.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
97 - REGULATION OF MEMBRANE TYPE-1 MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE AND MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE-2 mRNA EXPRESSION WITHIN BOVINE PREOVULATORY FOLLICLES
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
98 - THE OVULATION RATE IN THE PERFUSED RAT OVARY IS NOT INFLUENCED BY DEXAMETHASONE, ALTHOUGH PLASMINOGEN ACTIVITY, PROSTAGLANDIN LEVELS, AND ESTRADIOL SYNTHESIS ARE SUPPRESSED
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
99 - LOCAL RELEASE OF ANGIOTENSIN II, ENDOTHELIN, ATRIAL NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, PROSTAGLANDINS, AND STEROIDS FROM THE BOVINE MATURE FOLLICLES DURING THE PERIOVULATORY PERIOD IN VIVO
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
100 - MOUSE TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ATTENUATES THE LUTEINIZING HORMONE INDUCTION OF PROGESTERONE SECRETION IN HEN GRANULOSA CELLS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
101 - A SELECTIVE LEUKOTRIENE B4 (LTB4) ANTAGONIST INHIBITS OVULATION IN THE RAT OVARY IN VIVO AND IN VITRO
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom

Pregnancy and Parturition - Topic Categories
102 - THE EFFECT OF ANDROSTENEDIONE TREATMENT ON PREGNANT RATS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
103 - CLINICAL RESEARCH OF ACUPUNCTURE ON INDUCTION OF LABOR IN PROLONGED PREGNANCY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
104 - ESTROGEN REGULATION OF LEPTIN mRNA TRANSCRIPTS IN CYCLING, PREGNANT, AND FETECTOMIZED BABOONS.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
105 - PLACENTAL STEROIDS IN CATTLE—EVIDENCE FOR A ROLE AS LOCAL REGULATORS OF PLACENTAL GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
106 - EFFECT OF INTRAUTERINE CROWDING AND BREED ON FETAL ERYTHROPOIESIS ON DAY 35 OF PREGNANCY IN SWINE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
107 - PORCINE PLACENTAL LEPTIN AND LEPTIN RECEPTOR MESSENGER RIBONUCLEIC ACID EXPRESSION: MEISHAN VERSUS WHITE CROSSBRED.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
108 - FETAL AND PLACENTAL DEVELOPMENT, LENGTH OF GESTATION, AND PREGNANCY OUTCOME IN GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR-DEFICIENT MICE
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
109 - CHRONIC FETAL HYPOXIA UPREGULATES BOTH PREPROENDOTHELIN-1 AND ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR SUBTYPE GENE EXPRESSION IN THE RAT PLACENTA.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
110 - EXPRESSION OF STEROIDOGENIC ENZYMES DURING eCG SECRETION IN THE EQUINE FETUS
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
111 - SHEAR STRESS MAY MODULATE IN VIVO NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION BY THE UTERINE VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM IN PREGNANCY.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Sunday, August 1 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
302 - PREFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF Na+/K+ ATPase SUBUNIT 3 CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTRACTION FREQUENCY IN EARLY GESTATION UTERI.
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom
303 - MECHANISM OF PARTURITION HYPOTHESIS: ACTIVATION OF FETAL ADRENAL AXIS BY FETAL SEROTONIN
8:00 AM to 10:15 AM Monday, August 2 CUB 2nd Floor Ballroom