Telomeres and reproductive aging

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-14

  Keefe, David L ^a   Liu, Lin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Infertility; Meiosis; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGING; ANEUPLOIDY; APOPTOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSSING OVER; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; TELOMERE;

AGING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; REPRODUCTION; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 57449083497     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD08229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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