Causes of developmental failure of in-vitro and matured rhesus monkey oocytes: Impairments in embryonic genome activation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 826-833

  Schramm, R Dee ^a   Paprocki, Ann Marie ^a   Vande Voort, Catherine A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibrillarin; Genome activation; In vitro maturation; Macaque; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; FIBRILLARIN; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE ACTIVATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALIA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037383919     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg144     Document Type: Article

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