Oocyte morphology and transcriptional silencing in relation to chromatin remodeling during the final phases of bovine oocyte growth

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 915-924

  Lodde, Valentina ^a   Modina, Silvia ^a   Maddox Hyttel, Poul ^b   Franciosi, Federica ^a   Lauria, Antonio ^a   Luciano, Alberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; Cytoplasmic organelles; Germinal vesicle; Nucleolus; Oocyte; Transcriptional activity

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM; URIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; COW; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ELECTRON; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINAL VESICLE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; OOCYTES; RNA;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 41149118182     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20824     Document Type: Article

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