Stage-specific requirement of cysteine during in vitro maturation of porcine oocytes for glutathione synthesis associated with male pronuclear formation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Sawai, Ken ^a   Funahashi, Hiroaki ^a   Niwa, Koji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTHIONINE SULFOXIMINE; CYSTEINE; GLUTATHIONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUTATHIONE; MALE; OOCYTES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 0031008174     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.1     Document Type: Article

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