Oocyte ultrastructure in bovine primordial to early tertiary follicles

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 195, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 327-336

  Fair, T ^a   Hulshof, S C J ^b   Hyttel, P ^a   Greve, T ^a   Boland, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cattle; Growth; Ooplasm; Organelles

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COATED PIT; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; FEMALE; OOCYTES; ORGANELLES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0030902387     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050052     Document Type: Article

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