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Figure 1 | Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

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From: Temporal regulation of mRNAs for select bone morphogenetic proteins (BMP), BMP receptors and their associated SMAD proteins during bovine early embryonic development: effects of exogenous BMP2 on embryo developmental progression

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Temporal changes in BMP2 (A), BMP10 (B), BMP3 (C) and BMP7 (D) mRNA abundance during oocyte maturation and early embryogenesis in vitro. Quantitative real time RT-PCR analysis was performed on samples of germinal vesicle (GV) and metaphase II (MII) stage oocytes and in vitro derived embryos collected at the pronuclear (PN), 2-cell (2C), 4-cell (4C), 8-cell (8C), 16-cell (16C), morula (MO) and blastocyst (BL) stages (n = 4 pools of 10 oocytes/embryos per pool). Data were normalized relative to abundance of endogenous control (RPS18) and are shown as mean ± SEM. Values with different superscripts across timepoints denote significant differences (P < 0.05).

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