Nuclear configuration, spindle morphology and cytoskeletal organization of in vivo maturing horse oocytes

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 435-440

  Siddiqui, Mar ^b   Gastal, El ^a   Ju, Jc ^c   Gastal, Mo ^b   Beg, Ma ^a   Ginther, Oj ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b EUTHERIA FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHROMOSOMES; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HORSES; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 65649153375     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2008.01105.x     Document Type: Article

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