Andrea S. Cupp

Vascular endothelial growth factor and kinase domain region receptor are involved in both seminiferous cord formation and vascular development during testis morphogenesis in the rat.

Neutralization of vascular endothelial growth factor antiangiogenic isoforms is more effective than treatment with proangiogenic isoforms in stimulating vascular development and follicle progression in the perinatal rat ovary.

Inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor signal transduction blocks follicle progression but does not necessarily disrupt vascular development in perinatal rat ovaries.

Neutralization of vascular endothelial growth factor antiangiogenic isoforms or administration of proangiogenic isoforms stimulates vascular development in the rat testis.

KDR-LacZ-expressing cells are involved in ovarian and testis-specific vascular development, suggesting a role for VEGFA in the regulation of this vasculature.

VEGFA family isoforms regulate spermatogonial stem cell homeostasis in vivo.

The balance of proangiogenic and antiangiogenic VEGFA isoforms regulate follicle development.

Vascular contributions to early ovarian development: potential roles of VEGFA isoforms.

Loss of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) isoforms in the testes of male mice causes subfertility, reduces sperm numbers, and alters expression of genes that regulate undifferentiated spermatogonia.

Sertoli cell-based gene therapy?

Altered theca and cumulus oocyte complex gene expression, follicular arrest and reduced fertility in cows with dominant follicle follicular fluid androgen excess.

Loss of vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) isoforms in granulosa cells using pDmrt-1-Cre or Amhr2-Cre reduces fertility by arresting follicular development and by reducing litter size in female mice.

VEGFA splicing: divergent isoforms regulate spermatogonial stem cell maintenance.

Vascular endothelial growth factor A: just one of multiple mechanisms for sex-specific vascular development within the testis?

Reproductive systems biology tackles global issues of population growth, food safety and reproductive health.

Mesonephric Cell Migration into the Gonads and Vascularization Are Processes Crucial for Testis Development.

Gene expression profiling of bovine ovarian follicular and luteal cells provides insight into cellular identities and functions.

Transcriptomes of bovine ovarian follicular and luteal cells.

Beef heifers with diminished numbers of antral follicles have decreased uterine protein concentrations.

Early transcriptome responses of the bovine midcycle corpus luteum to prostaglandin F2α includes cytokine signaling.

Transcriptomic and bioinformatics analysis of the early time-course of the response to prostaglandin F2 alpha in the bovine corpus luteum.

Use of case-based or hands-on laboratory exercises with physiology lectures improves knowledge retention, but veterinary medicine students prefer case-based activities.

Triennial Reproduction Symposium: Looking back and moving forward-how reproductive physiology has evolved.

Maternal age influences the number of primordial follicles in the ovaries of yearling Angus heifers.

Impaired muscle stem cell function in cows with high concentrations of androstenedione in their follicular fluid.

Yes-associated protein 1 is required for proliferation and function of bovine granulosa cells in vitro†.

Vascular endothelial growth factor A isoforms modulate follicle development in peripubertal heifers independent of diet through diverse signal transduction pathways.

Perturbations in Lineage Specification of Granulosa and Theca Cells May Alter Corpus Luteum Formation and Function.

Livestock animals to study infertility in women.

Luteinizing hormone regulates the phosphorylation and localization of the mitochondrial effector dynamin-related protein-1 (DRP1) and steroidogenesis in the bovine corpus luteum.

Trafficking of cholesterol from lipid droplets to mitochondria in bovine luteal cells: Acute control of progesterone synthesis.

Formation and characterization of lipid droplets of the bovine corpus luteum.

Beef cows with atypical estrous cyclicity at puberty produced calves with deficits in preweaning muscling, metabolic indicators, and myoblast function but not in feedlot performance.