Fertilization and development: The stages at which human fertilization arrests: Microtubule and chromosome configurations in inseminated oocytes which failed to complete fertilization and development in humans

Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1897-1906

  Asch, R ^a   Simerly, C ^b   Ord, T ^a   Ord, V A ^a   Schatten, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrest; Chromosomes; Fertilization; Human; Microtubules

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; OOCYTE; POLYSPERMY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; ZYGOTE;

ASTER;

EID: 0029116167     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a136204     Document Type: Article

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