Proceedings of the KSAR Conference (한국동물번식학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2002.06a
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- Pages.71-71
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- 2002
Acetylcholine-Induced Calcium Current and Oscillation in Mouse Eggs
- Kang, Da-Won (Department of Physiology, Gyeongsang National University) ;
- Han, Jae-Hee (Department of Physiology, Gyeongsang National University) ;
- Hong, Seong-Geun (Department of Physiology, Gyeongsang National University)
- Published : 2002.06.01
Abstract
Our previous study has suggested that muscarinic receptor present in the mouse oocytes, and Ca/sup 2+/ waves elicited by acetylcholine (ACh) are similar to those induced by sperm. A numerous study reported that ACh could cause early activation events in mouse oocytes overexpressing the Ml muscarinic receptor (Williams et al., 1992; Moore et al., 1993; Kim et al., 1998). However, the physiological role of ACh during mouse embryonic development is poorly understood. (omitted)