Chromatin configuration within the germinal vesicle of horse oocytes: Changes post mortem and relationship to meiotic and developmental competence

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1142-1150

  Hinrichs, K ^a,b   Choi, Y H ^a   Love, L B ^a   Varner, D D ^a   Love, C C ^a   Walckenaer, B E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Chromatin; Embryo; Horse; In vitro fertilization; Oocyte development

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CADAVER; CELL CULTURE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GERMINAL VESICLE; GERMINATION; HORSE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HORSES; MALE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS;

EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 17444365034     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.036012     Document Type: Article

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