Ciliary transport, gamete interaction, and effects of the early embryo in the oviduct: Ex vivo analyses using a new digital videomicroscopic system in the cow

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 267-274

  Kölle, Sabine ^a   Dubielzig, Sabine ^a   Reese, Sven ^b   Wehrend, Axel ^a   König, Peter ^c   Kummer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ciliary transport; Early embryo; Fertilization; Oviduct; Sperm motility and transport

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CILIARY MOTILITY; COW; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVIDUCT; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; UTERINE TUBE MUCOSA; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL MOVEMENT; CILIA; CUMULUS CELLS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EPITHELIUM; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; METESTRUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; OVUM TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPERM TRANSPORT; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 68049140872     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.073874     Document Type: Article

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