Verapamil reversibly inhibits spontaneous parthenogenetic activation in aged rat eggs cultured in vitro

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 608-617

  Chaube, Shail K ^a   Dubey, Pawan K ^a   Mishra, Surabhi K ^a   Shrivastav, Tulsidas G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 3 INHIBITOR; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA FRAGMENT; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL AGING; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME INHIBITION; METAPHASE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVIDUCT; PARTHENOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CASPASE 3; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOPLASM; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; METAPHASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OVUM; PARTHENOGENESIS; RATS; VERAPAMIL;

RATTUS;

EID: 37549023796     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2007.0001     Document Type: Article

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