Can the presence of wild-type oocytes during insemination rescue the fusion defect of CD9 null oocytes?

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 602-

  Gupta, Surabhi ^a   Primakoff, Paul ^a   Myles, Diana G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD9 ANTIGEN;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL FUSION; EXOSOME; HUMAN; LETTER; NULL CELL; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; FEMALE; INSEMINATION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; OOCYTES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

EID: 67449085966     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21040     Document Type: Letter

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