Changes in the cumulus-oocyte complex of subordinate follicles relative to follicular wave status in cattle

Theriogenology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 549-561

  Salamone, D F ^a   Adams, G P ^a   Mapletoft, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bovine; Follicular wave; Oocyte competence; Subordinate follicle; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN DERIVATIVE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CATTLE; CELL MATURATION; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INHALATION; MALE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0033197771     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00151-X     Document Type: Article

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