Association between human oocyte developmental competence and expression levels of some cumulus genes

Reproduction

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 645-650

  Cillo, Fabiana ^a   Brevini, Tiziana A L ^a   Antonini, Stefania ^a   Paffoni, Alessio ^b   Ragni, Guido ^b   Gandolfi, Fulvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CETRORELIX; GREMLIN 1; HYALURONIC ACID SYNTHASE 2; MESSENGER RNA; PENTRAXIN 3; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RNA 28S; TRIPTORELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CUMULUS CELLS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKERS; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERUM AMYLOID P-COMPONENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 36348972882     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-07-0182     Document Type: Article

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