Ammonium accumulation and use of mineral oil overlay do not alter imprinting establishment at three key imprinted genes in mouse oocytes grown and matured in a long-term follicle culture

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 666-673

  Anckaert, Ellen ^a   Adriaenssens, Tom ^a   Romero, Sergio ^a   Smitz, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Assisted reproductive technology; DNA methylation; Follicle; Follicle culture; Gametogenesis; Genome imprinting; In vitro maturation; Mineral oil; Mouse oocyte; Oocyte development

Indexed keywords

MINERAL OIL; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; RNA H19; SEX HORMONE; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CBA MOUSE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; OOCYTE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA METHYLATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MINERAL OIL; OOCYTES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 2; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 74049137168     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.076810     Document Type: Article

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