Prevention of zona hardening in non-human primate oocytes cultured in protein-free medium

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-16

  Vandevoort, Catherine A ^a   Hung, Pei Hsuan ^a   Schramm, R D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemically defined culture media; Embryo development; Fertilization; Invitro maturation

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VIVO CULTURE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PROTEINS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

PRIMATES;

EID: 33846211358     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2006.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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