WNT4 is required for ovarian follicle development and female fertility. Mus musculus

To study the physiological role of WNT4 in the postnatal ovary, a mouse strain bearing a floxed Wnt4 allele was created and mated to the Amhr2tm3(cre)Bhr strain to target deletion of Wnt4 to granulosa cells. Wnt4flox/-;Amhr2tm3(cre)Bhr/+ mice had significantly reduced ovary weights and produced smaller litters (P80% could be obtained at an MOI of ~50 (as determined by analysis of fluorescent signal in Ad-eGFP-infected cells) and that the Ad-Cre and Ad-WNT4 viruses produced efficient recombination of the floxed Ctnnb1 alleles and robust WNT4 overexpression, respectively. Microarray analyses were done using triplicate RNA samples from each adenoviral treatment described above, and using mouse expression set 430 microarrays (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA).