The cortical reaction and development of activation competence in mammalian oocytes

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 29-42

  Ducibella, Tom ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation competence; Calcium; Cortical granules; In vitro fertilization; Oocyte maturation

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; DIACYLGLYCEROL; GLYCOPROTEIN; INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL GRANULE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOME; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVULATION; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERM; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; OVUM; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0029868296     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/2.1.29     Document Type: Review

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