SESSION 15: OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Irit Granot, Maria M Viveiros
Monday, July 17, 2000
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
Social Sciences 5206
1:30 PMTHE ROLE OF CYCLOOXYGENASE (COX-2), PROSTAGLANDIN E2 (PGE2) AND PROSTAGLANDIN RECEPTORS 2 AND 3 (EP2 AND EP3) DURING MATURATION IN VITRO OF BOVINE CUMULUS OOCYTE COMPLEXES (COCS).
CALDER, M.D , A.N CAVENEY, M.E WESTHUSIN, A.J WATSON
1:45 PMIN VITRO EXPOSURE TO PHOSPHODIESTERASE 3 INHIBITORS PREVENTS SPONTANEOUS RESUMPTION OF MEIOSIS IN RHESUS MACAQUE OOCYTES.
JENSEN, J. , K.M SCHWINOF, T. HAZZARD, M. ZELINSKI-WOOTEN, M CONTI, R.L STOUFFER
2:00 PMPROTEIN KINASE C (PKC) PARTICIPATION IN SPONTANEOUS OOCYTE ACTIVATION.
VIVEIROS, M.M , Y. HIRAO, J.J EPPIG
2:15 PMGROWTH-PROMOTING ACTIVITY OF MOUSE OOCYTES IS DEVELOPMENTALLY REGULATED.
GILCHRIST, R.B , L.J RITTER, D.T ARMSTRONG
2:30 PMEVIDENCE THAT THE GAP JUNCTION COUPLING PATHWAY, AND NOT A PARACRINE FACTOR, MEDIATES THE MEIOSIS-INDUCING ACTION OF GONADOTROPIN IN ISOLATED MOUSE OOCYTES.
DOWNS, S.M
2:45 PMCONNEXIN43 IN RAT OOCYTES: DEVELOMENTAL MODULATION OF ITS PHOSPHORYLATION.
GRANOT, I. , E. BECHOR, A. BARASH, N. DEKEL
3:00 PMLOCALIZATION OF PHOSPHORYLATED-MAPK AND PP2A DURING MOUSE OOCYTE MEIOSIS AND THEIR ROLES IN MICROTUBULE POLYMERIZATION.
LU, Q. , R. ANGELES, G.D SMITH
3:15 PMMOUSE OOCYTES MATURED IN SERUM-FREE MEDIA CAN DEVELOP INTO NORMAL OFFSPRING AFTER FERTILIZATION BY INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION (ICSI).
YAMAZAKI, Y , T. WAKAYAMA, R. YANAGIMACHI

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