Egg-to-embryo transition is driven by differential responses to Ca2+ oscillation number

Developmental Biology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 280-291

  Ducibella, Tom ^a   Huneau, Daniel ^b   Angelichio, Elizabeth ^a   Xu, Zhe ^c   Schultz, Richard M ^c   Kopf, Gregory S ^c   Fissore, Rafael ^d   Madoux, Stephane ^b   Ozil, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; Egg; Fertilization; Intracellular calcium; Meiosis; Pronucleus; Secretion

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOCYTOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0036402524     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(02)90788-8     Document Type: Article

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