Cumulus cells of oocyte-cumulus complexes secrete a meiosis-activating substance when stimulated with FSH

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 296-305

  Byskov, Anne Grete ^a   Yding Andersen, Claus ^a   Hossaini, Alireza ^a   Guoliang, Xia ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

FSH; in vitro; meiosis activation; mouse; oocytes cumulus complex

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; HYPOXANTHINE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GERMINAL VESICLE; GRANULOSA CELL; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OOCYTES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842408395     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199703)46:3<296::AID-MRD8>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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