Oocyte activation: Lessons from human infertility

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 163-169

  Ben Yosef, Dalit ^a   Shalgi, Ruth ^b  

^a LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0035060634     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-4914(01)01957-8     Document Type: Review

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