Assessment of a new in vitro maturation system for mouse and human cumulus-enclosed oocytes: Three-dimensional prematuration culture in the presence of a phosphodiesterase 3-inhibitor

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1946-1959

  Vanhoutte, L ^a   Nogueira, D ^b   Dumortier, F ^a   De Sutter, P ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b IFREARES   (France)

Author keywords

Cumulus enclosed oocytes; In vitro maturation; Oocyte development; Phosphodiesterases; Three dimensional culture

Indexed keywords

CILOSTAMIDE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 67651098974     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dep104     Document Type: Article

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