The developmental potential of the human oocyte is related to the dissolved oxygen content of follicular fluid: Association with vascular endothelial growth factor levels and perifollicular blood flow characteristics

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1047-1055

  Van Blerkom, Jonathan ^a,b   Antczak, Michael ^a   Schrader, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Reproductive Genetics In Vitro   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic defects; Intrafollicular oxygen; Perifollicular angiogenesis; Spindle defects; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; OXYGEN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOSAICISM; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY BLOOD FLOW; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION;

EID: 0030927518     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.5.1047     Document Type: Article

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