ACTA VETERINARIA ET ZOOTECHNICA SINICA ›› 2019, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (11): 2175-2185.doi: 10.11843/j.issn.0366-6964.2019.11.001

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Advances in miRNA Regulating Mammalian Follicular Development and Oocyte Maturation

HE Xiaoyun, LIU Qiuyue*, CHU Mingxing*   

  1. Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
  • Received:2019-04-03 Online:2019-11-23 Published:2019-11-23
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Abstract: The regulation of female mammalian follicular development and oocyte maturation involves the spatiotemporal regulation of those genes that play key roles in reproduction. miRNAs, as a class of small non-coding RNAs, regulate the expression of most of these genes. Over the last decade, a large number of miRNAs involved in mammalian follicular development and oocyte growth were found through high-throughput sequencing, knockout of key genes involved in miRNA generation, and functional inhibition or overexpression of miRNAs. The function of these miRNAs in mammalian follicular development and oocyte maturation were ultimately determined by studying the interaction with their target genes. The present review focuses on the expression and potential function of major miRNAs during follicular development and oocyte maturation in reproductive cells or extracellular. These results can provide a reference for further exploring the regulation mechanism of mammalian reproduction.

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