E.E. Just's "Independent irritability" revisited: The activated egg as excitable soft matter

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 966-974

  Newman, Stuart A ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION;

CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; DYNAMICS; EGG; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE CORTEX; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; EMBRYOLOGY; FERTILIZATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 69749086205     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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