Jens Vanselow

Placenta-specific transcripts of the aromatase encoding gene include different untranslated first exons in sheep and cattle.

A Bsp143I PCR-RFLP in exon 3 of the ovine aromatase gene (CYP19).

Isolation of the bovine CYP19 promoter 1.2 and identification of genetic variants.

Expression of the aromatase cytochrome P450 encoding gene in cattle and sheep.

Cattle and sheep use different promoters to direct the expression of the aromatase cytochrome P450 encoding gene, Cyp19, during pregnancy.

Promoter-2-derived Cyp19 expression in bovine granulosa cells coincides with gene-specific DNA hypo-methylation.

Cultured bovine trophoblast cells differentially express genes encoding key steroid synthesis enzymes.

DNA methylation of placenta-specific Cyp19 promoters of cattle and sheep.

Expression profiling of a high-fertility mouse line by microarray analysis and qPCR.

DNA methylation is not involved in preovulatory down-regulation of CYP11A1, HSD3B1, and CYP19A1 in bovine follicles but may have a role in permanent silencing of CYP19A1 in large granulosa lutein cells.

The bovine genome contains three differentially methylated paralogous copies of the P450c17 encoding gene (CYP17A1).

Suitable housekeeping genes for normalization of transcript abundance analysis by real-time RT-PCR in cultured bovine granulosa cells during hypoxia and differential cell plating density.

Maternal high-protein diet during pregnancy, but not during suckling, induced altered expression of an increasing number of hepatic genes in adult mouse offspring.

On the relevance of technical variation due to building pools in microarray experiments.

Oleic acid induces specific alterations in the morphology, gene expression and steroid hormone production of cultured bovine granulosa cells.

Induction of altered gene expression profiles in cultured bovine granulosa cells at high cell density.

Cultured bovine granulosa cells rapidly lose important features of their identity and functionality but partially recover under long-term culture conditions.

Oleic acid induces down-regulation of the granulosa cell identity marker FOXL2, and up-regulation of the Sertoli cell marker SOX9 in bovine granulosa cells.

Lactate promotes specific differentiation in bovine granulosa cells depending on lactate uptake thus mimicking an early post-LH stage.

Global gene expression analysis indicates that small luteal cells are involved in extracellular matrix modulation and immune cell recruitment in the bovine corpus luteum.