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Title: Gonadotropin-regulated expressions of lanosterol 14alpha-demethylase, sterol Delta14-reductase and C-4 sterol methyl oxidase contribute to the accumulation of meiosis-activating sterol in rabbit gonads.
Journal: Prostaglandins & other lipid mediators 20100601
Title: Oocyte maturation. Basic and clinical aspects of in vitro maturation (IVM) with special emphasis of the role of FF-MAS.
Journal: Danish medical bulletin 20080201
Title: Are steroids dispensable for meiotic resumption in mammals?
Journal: Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM 20071001
Title: Influence of follicular fluid meiosis-activating sterol on aneuploidy rate and precocious chromatid segregation in aged mouse oocytes.
Journal: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 20070301
Title: Effect of rescuing donated immature human oocytes derived after FSH/hCG stimulation following in vitro culture with or without Follicular Fluid Meiosis Activating Sterol (FF-MAS)--an embryo chromosomal and morphological analysis.
Journal: Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics 20070301
Title: The effect of FF-MAS on porcine cumulus-oocyte complex maturation, fertilization and pronucleus formation in vitro.
Journal: Zygote (Cambridge, England) 20060801
Title: Meiosis activating sterol (MAS) regulate FSH-induced meiotic resumption of cumulus cell-enclosed porcine oocytes via PKC pathway.
Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20060425
Title: Follicular sterol composition in gonadotrophin stimulated women with polycystic ovarian syndrome.
Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20060425
Title: cDNA cloning, genomic structure and expression analysis of the bovine lanosterol 14alpha-demethylase (CYP51) in gonads.
Journal: Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin 20060301
Title: Impact of follicular-fluid meiosis-activating sterol in an albumin-based formulation on the incidence of human pre-embryos with chromosome abnormalities.
Journal: Fertility and sterility 20051001
Title: Meiosis-activating sterol synthesis in rat preovulatory follicle: is it involved in resumption of meiosis?
Journal: Biology of reproduction 20041201
Title: Mouse oocyte meiotic resumption and polar body extrusion in vitro are differentially influenced by FSH, epidermal growth factor and meiosis-activating sterol.
Journal: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 20041201
Title: Development and validation of a method for the purity determination of (3beta,20R)-4,4-dimethylcholesta-8,14,24-trien-3-ol(FF-MAS) in pharmaceutical products containing recombinant human albumin.
Journal: Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences 20041025
Title: A synthetic analogue of meiosis-activating sterol (FF-MAS) is a potent agonist promoting meiotic maturation and preimplantation development of mouse oocytes maturing in vitro.
Journal: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 20041001
Title: Chromosomal abnormality rate in human pre-embryos derived from in vitro fertilization cycles cultured in the presence of Follicular-Fluid Meiosis Activating Sterol (FF-MAS).
Journal: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 20040901
Title: Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and Akt participate in the FSH-induced meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes.
Journal: Molecular reproduction and development 20040901
Title: Quantitation of lanosterol and its major metabolite FF-MAS in an inhibition assay of CYP51 by azoles with atmospheric pressure photoionization based LC-MS/MS.
Journal: Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 20040801
Title: Action of hypoxanthine and meiosis-activating sterol on oocyte maturation in the mouse is strain specific.
Journal: Reproductive biomedicine online 20040601
Title: A randomized, double-blind, controlled trial of the effect of adding follicular fluid meiosis activating sterol in an ethanol formulation to donated human cumulus-enclosed oocytes before fertilization.
Journal: Fertility and sterility 20040101
Title: Meiosis-activating sterol protects oocytes from precocious chromosome segregation.
Journal: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 20030901
Title: Two syntheses of FF-MAS.
Journal: Organic letters 20030529
Title: Physiology of meiosis-activating sterol: endogenous formation and mode of action.
Journal: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 20030101
Title: Progesterone and 17 alpha-OH-progesterone in concentrations similar to that of preovulatory follicular fluid is without effect on resumption of meiosis in mouse cumulus enclosed oocytes cultured in the presence of hypoxanthine.
Journal: Steroids 20021101
Title: Meiosis activating sterols derived from diosgenin.
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Title: Lanosterol 14alpha-demethylase and MAS sterols in mammalian gametogenesis.
Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20020222
Title: Role of meiosis activating sterols, MAS, in induced oocyte maturation.
Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20020222
Title: Is meiosis activating sterol (MAS) an obligatory mediator of meiotic resumption in mammals.
Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20020222
Title: FF-MAS and its role in mammalian oocyte maturation.
Journal: Ernst Schering Research Foundation workshop 20020101
Title: Gonadotropin-induced accumulation of 4,4-dimethylsterols in mouse ovaries and its temporal relation to meiosis.
Journal: Biology of reproduction 20011201
Title: Resumption of meiosis induced by meiosis-activating sterol has a different signal transduction pathway than spontaneous resumption of meiosis in denuded mouse oocytes cultured in vitro.
Journal: Biology of reproduction 20011201
Title: Relation between the molecular electrostatic potential and activity of some FF-MAS related sterol compounds.
Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20011001
Title: Content of meiosis activating sterols in equine follicular fluids: correlation to follicular size and dominance.
Journal: Theriogenology 20010701
Title: The effects of meiosis activating sterol on in-vitro maturation and fertilization of human oocytes from stimulated and unstimulated ovaries.
Journal: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) 20010301
Title: Activation of meiotic maturation in rat oocytes after treatment with follicular fluid meiosis-activating sterol in vitro and ex vivo.
Journal: Biology of reproduction 20010201
Title: Autoradiographic localization of specific binding of meiosis-activating sterol to cumulus-oocyte complexes from marmoset, cow, and mouse.
Journal: Biology of reproduction 20010201
Title: Meiosis-activating sterol and the maturation of isolated mouse oocytes.
Journal: Biology of reproduction 20010101
Title: Meiosis-activating sterol promotes resumption of meiosis in mouse oocytes cultured in vitro in contrast to related oxysterols.
Journal: Biology of reproduction 19980501
