Effects of leptin on in vitro maturation, fertilization and embryonic cleavage after ICSI and early developmental expression of leptin (Ob) and leptin receptor (ObR) proteins in the horse

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lange Consiglio, Anna ^a   Dell'Aquila, Maria E ^b   Fiandanese, Nadia ^b   Ambruosi, Barbara ^b   Cho, Yoon S ^d   Bosi, Giampaolo ^c   Arrighi, Silvana ^c   Lacalandra, Giovanni M ^b   Cremonesi, Fausto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Department of Animal Production   (Italy)

^c Laboratory of Anatomy ^*  (Italy)

^d Santa Maria Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TISSUE CULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVALUATION; HORSE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL;

EQUIDAE; MUS; RODENTIA; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HORSES; LEPTIN; MALE; OOGENESIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 71149112133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-113     Document Type: Article

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