Calcium responses of human oocytes after intracytoplasmic injection of leukocytes, spermatocytes and round spermatids

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 853-857

  Sousa, Mario ^a   Mendoza, Carmen ^b   Barros, Alberto ^c   Tesarik, Jan ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

^d LABORATOIRE D EYLAU   (France)

Author keywords

Calcium; Leukocyte; Oocyte activation; Spermatid; Spermatocyte

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CALCIUM; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OOCYTES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES;

EID: 0030275611     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/2.11.853     Document Type: Article

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