Localization and quantitative expression of the calcium-sensing receptor protein in human oocytes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 1240-1247

  Elena Dell'Aquila, Maria ^a   De Santis, Teresa ^a   Cho, Yoon Sung ^b   Reshkin, Stephan Joel ^a   Caroli, Anna Maria ^c   Maritato, Filippo ^a   Minoia, Paolo ^a   Casavola, Valeria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Centre for Medically Assisted Procreation   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

calcium sensing receptor; confocal laser scanning microscopy; Human oocyte; image analysis; immunofluorescence; Western blot

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SENSING RECEPTOR; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METAPHASE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CELLS, CULTURED; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MITOSIS; OOCYTES; RECEPTORS, CALCIUM-SENSING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33645892895     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.11.033     Document Type: Article

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