Microtubule and chromatin dynamics during fertilization and early development in rhesus monkeys, and regulation by intracellular calcium ions

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 260-270

  Wu, Gwo Jang ^a,c   Simerly, Calvin ^a   Zoran, Sara S ^a   Funte, L R ^a   Schatten, Gerald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b National Defense Medical University ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; CALCIUM ION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; IONOMYCIN; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CHROMATIN; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RHESUS MONKEY; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0029741880     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.2.260     Document Type: Article

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