Vol.30 No.3 (2008 June): 347-351

Effect and Regulation of Microfilaments in Mature Process of Oocyte

Qing-Quan Wang, Yi-Jie Cao¹, Hua Ni*

(College of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China; ¹Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Biological Engineering Co., Ltd, Harbin 150020, China)

Abstract Microfilaments , which is an ingredient of the cystoskeleton, exists in all kinds of cells. In recent years, the effect and regulation of microfilaments in the mature process of oocyte take more and more attentions. Microfilaments can regulate many cell activities, such as organelles migration, dispersed chromatin collection, cortex reorganization, polarity establishment, first polar body emission and so on. This article reviews the research progression about the mechanism of microfilaments in oocyte development and maturation .

Key words microfilaments; oocyte; meiosis

Received: November 27, 2007 Accepted: March 10, 2008
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30500361) and Science Research Item of the Education Office of Heilongjiang (No.11511040)
*Corresponding author. Tel: 86-451-5519084, E-mail: huani@neau.edu.cn