Quantified analysis of cortical granule distribution and exocytosis of porcine oocytes during meiotic maturation and activation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1376-1382

  Wang, Wei Hua ^a,b   Sun, Qing Yuan ^a   Hosoe, Misa ^a   Shioya, Yasuo ^a   Day, Billy N ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM IONOPHORE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EXOCYTOSIS; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CALCIMYCIN; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IONOPHORES; MALE; OOCYTES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SWINE;

EID: 0030986325     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.6.1376     Document Type: Article

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