Expression of genes encoding antioxidant enzymes in human and mouse oocytes during the final stages of maturation

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 720-725

  Mouatassim, S El ^a,b   Guerin P ^b,c   Menezo Y ^a,b  

^a LMM Laboratoire Marcel Merieux   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c VETAGRO SUP   (France)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Free oxygen radicals; Gene expression oocyte maturation; Preimplantation embryos

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; ENZYME; FREE RADICAL; GLUTAMATE CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; CATALASE; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FREE RADICALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUTAMATE-CYSTEINE LIGASE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; MICE; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0344035676     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.8.720     Document Type: Article

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