Microtubule organization and chromatin configurations in hamster oocytes during fertilization and parthenogenetic activation, and after insemination with human sperm

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 967-975

  Hewitson, Laura ^a   Haavisto, Amy ^a   Simerly, Calvin ^a   Jones, Jeffrey ^b   Schatten, Gerald ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHROMATIN; CRICETINAE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; INSEMINATION; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; NOCODAZOLE; OOCYTES; PACLITAXEL; PARTHENOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; ASTER; CRICETINAE; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 0030731472     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.967     Document Type: Article

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