Depletion of glutathione during bovine oocyte maturation reversibly blocks the decondensation of the male pronucleus and pronuclear apposition during fertilization

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1503-1512

  Sutovsky, Peter ^a,b   Schatten, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; GLUTATHIONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DISULFIDES; DITHIOTHREITOL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUTATHIONE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OOCYTES; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS;

EID: 0030912931     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.6.1503     Document Type: Article

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