Microtubule organization during rabbit fertilization by intracytoplasmic sperm injection with and without sperm centrosome

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-178

  Morita, Junko ^a   Terada, Yukihiro ^a   Hosoi, Yoshihiko ^b   Fujinami, Nahoko ^b   Sugimoto, Miki ^c   Nakamura, Sou Ichi ^a   Murakami, Takashi ^a   Yaegashi, Nobuo ^a   Okamura, Kunihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early development; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Rabbit fertilization; Sperm aster; Sperm centrosome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; RABBIT; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 21344447312     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2005.00096.x     Document Type: Article

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