Nucleus ultrastructure and transcriptional activity of bovine oocytes in preantral and early antral follicles

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 208-215

  Fair, T ^a   Hulshof, S C J ^b   Hyttel, P ^a   Greve, T ^a   Boland, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

bovine; nucleolus; oocyte; RNA synthesis; transcription

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GRANULOSA CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; OOCYTES; OVARY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URIDINE;

EID: 0031037865     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199702)46:2<208::AID-MRD11>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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