The study provided strong molecular evidence that fertilization of oocytes was accompanied by ... elongation and translational activation. They called this sequence CPE for cytoplasmic ...

An optogenetic method for controlling the movement of starfish oocytes has been developed, which could have applications for ...

The findings reveal significant previously unknown variations in immature oocytes and identify key markers involved in the early growth activation of follicles. Ovarian follicles are essential for ...

In a sense, oocyte activation and embryo development after sperm penetration is not a process of reprogramming of gene expression, but of differentiation. Three pieces of evidences support this model.

Oocyte Factors Two important oocyte-se­creted factors (OSFs) are growth-differentiation factor 9 and bone morphogenetic protein 15, which activate signaling pathways in CCs to regulate key genes ...