SESSION 17: GROWTH FACTORS I

Chair: Fuller Bazer, Ursula Vitt (Trainee)
Monday, July 17, 2000
1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
145 Birge
1:30 PMEFFECT OF THE GONADOPEPTIDE INHIBIN ON FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS OOCYTE MATURATION.
LIN, YU-WAIPETER , T.M SMITH, T.R PETRINO
1:45 PMREGULATION OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-OVARIAN AXIS BY COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR-1 (CSF-1) AND ITS TARGET CELLS.
COHEN, P.E , L. ZHU, K. NISHIMURA, J.W POLLARD
2:00 PMSPECIES- AND DEVELOPMENTAL-DEPENDENT EXPRESSION OF GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR-9 (GDF-9).
MAY, J.V , T.D SCHRAEDER-JOHNSON, W.J HENDRY III
2:15 PMGROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR-9 (GDF-9) INCREASES THE NUMBER OF PRIMARY AND SMALL PREANTRAL FOLLICLES AND THECA CELL MARKER CYP17 IN OVARIES OF IMMATURE RATS IN VIVO.
VITT, U.A , E.A MCGEE, M. HAYASHI, A.JW HSUEH
2:30 PMROLE OF DECIDUA-DERIVED DECORIN IN HUMAN EXTRAVILLOUS TROPHOBLAST FUNCTION.
GUIMOND, M. , P.K LALA
2:45 PMTRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR- INDUCED CHANGES IN THE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX AND CYTOSKELETON MAY MEDIATE ITS EFFECTS ON MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION OF RAT LEYDIG CELLS.
DICKSON, C. , H.L JOHNSON, D. WEBSTER, S.A KHAN
3:00 PMGROWTH INHIBITION OF DU 145 PROSTATE CANCER CELLS BY TGF-&BETA INVOLVES Jun D.
CHEN, L. , C.M PFARR, S.A KHAN
3:15 PMEXPRESSION OF FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 7 AND 9 IN THE OVINE UTERUS.
CHEN, C. , T.E SPENCER, F.W BAZER



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