Differential transcriptional activity associated with chromatin configuration in fully grown mouse germinal vesicle oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 580-587

  Bouniol Baly, Christine ^a   Hamraoui, Lahcen ^c,d   Guibert, Juliette ^a   Beaujean, Nathalie ^a   Szöllösi, Maria S ^a   Debey, Pascale ^a,b  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GERMINAL VESICLE; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032996341     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod60.3.580     Document Type: Article

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