Time course of pronuclear deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis in parthenogenetically activated bovine oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-35

  Soloy, Eva ^a,b   Kaňka, Jiří ^c   Viuff, Dorthe ^a   Smith, Steven Dale ^b   Callesen, Henrik ^b   Greve, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIMYCIN; CALCIUM IONOPHORE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLASTOMERE; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; FERTILIZATION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA; FEMALE; KINETICS; OOCYTES; PARTHENOGENESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; THYMIDINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0343329767     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.27     Document Type: Article

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