Morphological differences in nuclear materials released from hamster sperm heads at an early stage of incorporation into immature oocytes, mature oocytes, or fertilized eggs

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 132-140

  Usui, Noriko ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Ooplasmic factors; Sperm chromatin

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; HAMSTER; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CRICETINAE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OOCYTES; SPERM HEAD;

EID: 0029923494     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199605)44:1<132::AID-MRD15>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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