Nucleolar ultrastructure and protein allocation in in vitro produced porcine embryos

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-334

  Laurincik, J ^a,b   Bjerregaard, B ^c   Strejcek, F ^b   Rath, D ^d   Niemann, H ^d   Rosenkranz, C ^e   Ochs, R L ^f   Maddox Hyttel, Paul ^c  

^a The Philosopher University in Nitra Geoinformatics and Regional Development   (Slovakia)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^f Precision Therapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene activation; IVP; Nucleolus; Porcine; rRNA

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; FIBRILLARIN; NUCLEOLIN; NUCLEOPHOSMIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UPSTREAM BINDING FACTOR; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLASTOMERE; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE ACTIVATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; NUCLEOLUS PRECURSOR BODY; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SWINE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BLASTOMERES; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; EMBRYO; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POL1 TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION COMPLEX PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE I; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SUIDAE;

EID: 1642315846     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20088     Document Type: Article

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