Poor embryo development in mouse oocytes aged in vitro is associated with impaired calcium homeostasis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 493-502

  Takahashi, Toshifumi ^a   Igarashi, Hideki ^a   Kawagoe, Jun ^a   Amita, Mitsuyoshi ^a   Hara, Shuichiro ^a   Kurachi, Hirohisa ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Calcium oscillation; Calcium store; Cumulus cells; Embryo; In vitro aging; In vitro culture; In vitro fertilization; Ovum; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; THAPSIGARGIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL AGING; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HOMEOSTASIS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICE; OOCYTES; OXIDANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; THAPSIGARGIN;

EID: 62149122199     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.072017     Document Type: Article

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