Timed analysis of the nuclear maturation of oocytes in early preantral mouse follicle culture supplemented with recombinant gonadotropin

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1114-1125

  Cortvrindt, Rita G ^a   Hu, Yanxin ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Smitz, Johan E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUVAIN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gonadotropins; Granulosa; Inhibin; Meiosis; Ovary; Steroids

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GRANULOSA CELL; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032401017     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00332-X     Document Type: Article

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