Departement des Sciences Animales University of Laval, Ste-Foy, and Embryogene Network, Quebec, (Canada) (UniMI Agreement for International Cooperation)

Prof. Marc-Andre Sirard and Prof. Claude Robert (http://www.inaf.ulaval.ca/chercheurs-inaf.html?&L=1&tx_centrerecherche_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=379&cHash=3db97baa3e29a1d48621ada9959f63a2)

Luciano AM, Sirard MA. Successful in vitro maturation of oocytes: a matter of follicular differentiation. Biol Reprod 2018; 98:162-169.

Lodde V, Luciano AM, Franciosi F, Labrecque R, Sirard MA. Accumulation of Chromatin Remodelling Enzyme and Histone Transcripts in Bovine Oocytes. Results Probl Cell Differ 2017; 63:223-255.

Dieci C, Lodde V, Labreque R, Dufort I, Tessaro I, Sirard MA, Luciano AM. Differences in cumulus cell gene expression indicate the benefit of a pre-maturation step to improve in-vitro bovine embryo production. Mol Hum Reprod 2016; 22:882-897.

Scantland S, Tessaro I, Macabelli CH, Macaulay AD, Cagnone G, Fournier E, Luciano AM, Robert C. The Adenosine Salvage Pathway as an Alternative to Mitochondrial Production of ATP in Maturing Mammalian Oocytes EDITORIAL COMMENT. Obstet Gynecol Surv 2015; 70:30-31.

Labrecque R, Lodde V, Dieci C, Tessaro I, Luciano AM, Sirard MA. Chromatin remodelling and histone m RNA accumulation in bovine germinal vesicle oocytes. Mol Reprod Dev 2015; 82:450-462.

Scantland S, Tessaro I, Macabelli CH, Macaulay AD, Cagnone G, Fournier E, Luciano AM and Robert C. The Adenosine Salvage Pathway as an Alternative to Mitochondrial Production of ATP in Maturing Mammalian Oocytes. Biol Reprod 2014:10.1095/biolreprod.1114.120931.

Dieci C, Lodde V, Dufort I, Sirard MA, Luciano AM. Transcriptomic analysis of bovine cumulus cells investment of oocytes at different stage of differentiation based on the degree of their chromatin configuration: preliminary study. In: 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction, vol. 89. Montreal, Quebec (Canada): Biology of Reproduction; 2013: 278-279.

Guixue Z, Luciano AM, Coenen K, Gandolfi F, Sirard MA. The influence of cAMP before or during bovine oocyte maturation on embryonic developmental competence. Theriogenology 2001; 55:1733-1743.

Luciano AM, Coenen K, Gandolfi F, Sirard MA. Developmental competence of bovine oocytes is stimulated by low doses of dibutyryl-cAMP during cycloheximide-induced block of meiosis. Theriogenology 1999; 51:384.