SESSION 7: CORPUS LUTEUM I

Chair: Gordon D Niswender, Ugur Salli (Trainee)
Saturday, July 15, 2000
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Social Sciences 6210

3:30 PM	PTEN TUMOR SUPPRESSOR FUNCTIONS AS A NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF PI 3-KINASE/AKT SIGNALING IN BOVINE LUTEAL CELLS. WESTFALL, S.D , K.L OBHOLZ, J.C SUTER, B.R RUEDA, J.S DAVIS
3:45 PM	PGF2 DIFFERENTIALLY REGULATES LHR mRNA, BUT NOT cfos/cjun mRNA IN PORCINE CL AFTER ACQUISITION OF LUTEOLYTIC CAPACITY. DIAZ, F.J , M.C WILTBANK
4:00 PM	PROSTAGLANDIN F2 (PGF2) INDUCED EXPRESSION OF 20-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE (20-HSD) INVOLVES THE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR Nur77. STOCCO, C. , J FRASOR, G. GIBORI
4:15 PM	EXPERIMENTS ON FREE RADICAL CONTROL OF PROGESTERONE PRODUCTION IN THE RAT CORPUS LUTEUM. NARAYANSINGH, R.M , J. NYKAMP, R.R BHARADWAJ, M. SENCHYNA, A. KYVERIS, N.C BOLS, J.C CARLSON
4:30 PM	GAP JUNCTIONAL INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION (GJIC) IN CULTURED LUTEAL CELLS FROM EWES TREATED WITH LH AND/OR AN ANALOG OF PROSTAGLANDIN F2 (PGF) DURING THE EARLY-LUTEAL PHASE OF THE ESTROUS CYCLE. GRAZUL-BILSKA, A. , J. BILSKI, V DORAISWAMY, D. REDMER, L. REYNOLDS
4:45 PM	EXPRESSION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES (MMP-2 AND MMP-9) AND TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES (TIMP-1) DURING PGF2-INDUCED LUTEOLYSIS IN SHEEP. TOWLE, T.A , P.CW TSANG, R.A MILVAE, M. NEWBURY, J.A MCCRACKEN
5:00 PM	MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE EXPRESSION AND ACTIVITY FOLLOWING PROSTAGLANDIN F2-INDUCED LUTEOLYSIS: IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERING THE MMP : TIMP-RATIO. RICKE, W.A , G.W SMITH, M.F SMITH
5:15 PM	DIFFERENTIAL ACTIVATION OF PKC ISOFORMS BY PGF2 AT DIFFERENT DAYS OF THE BOVINE LUTEAL CYCLE. BROWNING, J. , EKEITH INSKEEP, P.E LEWIS, J.A FLORES