Dickkopf-related protein 1 inhibits the WNT signaling pathway and improves pig oocyte maturation.

The ability to mature oocytes in vitro provides a tool for creating embryos by parthenogenesis, fertilization, and cloning. Unfortunately the quality of oocytes matured in vitro falls behind that of in vivo matured oocytes. To address this difference, transcriptional profiling by deep sequencing was...

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Main Authors: Lee D Spate, Alana N Brown, Bethany K Redel, Kristin M Whitworth, Clifton N Murphy, Randall S Prather
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3989281?pdf=render