background: it is important to protect oocytes and embryos from oxidative stress in the culture medium. melatonin has been shown to be a direct free radical scavenger. objective: effect of melatonin during in vitro oocyte maturation, fertilization and embryo development of mouse oocytes was evaluated. materials and methods: oocytes from supper-ovulated mouse were divided to two groups: cumulus ...

Intracellular targeting of mRNAs has long been recognized as a means to produce proteins locally, but has only recently emerged as a prevalent mechanism used by a wide variety of polarized cell types. Localization of mRNA molecules within the cytoplasm provides a basis for cell polarization, thus underlying developmental processes such as asymmetric cell division, cell migration, neuronal matur...

A dopaminergic neuronal cell line was established which stably expressed human Bcl-2 (MN9D/Bcl-2) or a control vector (MN9D/Neo). Overexpression of Bcl-2 cells led to robust neurite formation without cessation of cell division. Most markers of neuronal and/or dopaminergic maturation were unchanged although the synaptosomal associated protein, SNAP-25, was increased three-fold in MN9D/Bcl-2 cell...

Cytological study revealed that maturation of oocytes of Heterodera betulae is by regular meiosis and reproduction is by parthenogenesis. Restoration of the somatic chromosome number occurs after telophase II and before egg pronucleus formation, in the absence of a mitotic apparatus through a type of endomitotic division. The haploid chromosome number is 12 (2n = 24) in 95% of the female nemato...

Myeloma plasmacytes were studied in six untreated pa tients to obtain more information on the nuclear ultrastruc tural abnormalities in these cells. Asynchrony of nucleolar, nuclear, and cytoplasmic maturation was frequently ob served in pleomorphic myeloma plasmacytes. Immature and mature myeloma plasmacytes of two patients contained intranuclear rodlets which consisted of fine filaments ar ra...

The septal ring in Escherichia coli consists of at least nine essential gene products whose order of assembly resembles a mostly linear dependency pathway: FtsA and ZipA directly bind FtsZ polymers at the prospective division site, followed by the sequential addition of FtsK, FtsQ, FtsL, FtsW, FtsI, and FtsN. Recruitment of FtsK and all downstream components requires the prior localization of F...

The vasculature of the zebrafish trunk is composed of tubes with different cellular architectures. Unicellular tubes form their lumen through membrane invagination and transcellular cell hollowing, whereas multicellular vessels become lumenized through a chord hollowing process. Endothelial cell proliferation is essential for the subsequent growth and maturation of the blood vessels. However, h...

The vasculature of the zebrafish trunk is composed of tubes with different cellular architectures. Unicellular tubes form their lumen through membrane invagination and transcellular cell hollowing, whereas multicellular vessels become lumenized through a chord hollowing process. Endothelial cell proliferation is essential for the subsequent growth and maturation of the blood vessels. However, h...

introduction: superovulation produces complications in some patients, so invitro maturation of oocytes is used to decrease or eliminate these complications and improve ivf. moreover, ivm is used for different aspects of reproductive researches. slaughterhouse ovaries are the main source of oocytes for ivm and ivf studies. different media has been introduced and experimented for in vitro maturat...

Junction-mediating and regulatory protein(JMY) is a multifunctional protein with roles in the transcriptional co-activation of p53 and the regulation of actin nucleation promoting factors and, hence, cell migration; however, its role in the maturation of porcine oocytes is unclear. In the current study, we investigated functional roles of JMY in porcine oocytes. Porcine oocytes expressed JMY mR...