Distribution of prepubertal and adult goat oocyte cortical granules during meiotic maturation and fertilisation: Ultrastructural and cytochemical study

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 507-514

  Velilla, E ^a   Izquierdo, D ^a   Rodriguez Gonzalez E ^a   Lopez Bejar M ^a   Vidal, F ^a   Paramio, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cortical granules; Goat; IVF; IVM

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM LACTATE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL GRANULE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; EXOCYTOSIS; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERMINAL VESICLE; GOAT; IN VITRO STUDY; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CORTICAL GRANULE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVULATION; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SERUM; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; STAINING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GOATS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OOCYTES; OVULATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; ZYGOTE;

CAPRA HIRCUS; LENS CULINARIS;

EID: 4143099381     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20111     Document Type: Article

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