The meiotic competence of in-vitro matured human oocytes is influenced by donor age: Evidence that folliculogenesis is compromised in the reproductively aged ovary

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 154-160

  Volarcik, Kimberly ^a   Sheean, Leon ^a   Goldfarb, James ^a   Woods, Linda ^a   Abdul Karim, Fadi W ^b   Hunt, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related non disjunction; Folliculogenesis; Meiotic competence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONDISJUNCTION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0031908290     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.1.154     Document Type: Article

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