First meiosis of early dictyate nuclei from primordial oocytes in mature and activated mouse oocytes

Zygote

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 73-80

  Czolowska, Renata ^a   Tarkowski, Andrzej K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fusion; Mouse; Oocyte activation; Premature meiosis I; Primordial oocytes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MITOSIS; OOCYTES;

EID: 0030080198     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199400002914     Document Type: Article

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