Decondensation of the mouse sperm nucleus within the interphase nucleus

Zygote

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-45

  Maeda, Yasutaka ^a,b   Yanagimachi, Hiroko ^a   Tateno, Hiroyuki ^c   Usui, Noriko ^d   Yanagimachi, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Kagoshima City Hospital   (Japan)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Egg; Glutathione; Nuclear decondensation; Nucleoplasmin; Oocyte; Sperm

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOPLASMIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INTERPHASE; MALE; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; INTERPHASE; MALE; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SPERM HEAD; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0031990309     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199400005062     Document Type: Article

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