Culture conditions affect meiotic regulation in cumulus cell-enclosed mouse oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 551-566

  Downs, Stephen M ^a   Mastropolo, Ann M ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

culture medium; meiotic maturation; oocytes

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; GERMINAL VESICLE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION;

ANIMALIA; CICONIIFORMES;

EID: 0030993487     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199704)46:4<551::AID-MRD13>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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