Effect of gonadotropins on oocyte maturation in vitro: an animal model

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1650-1661

  Sha, Wei ^a   Xu, Bao Zeng ^a   Li, Mo ^a   Liu, Di ^b   Feng, Huai L ^c   Sun, Qing Yuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cortical granules; in vitro maturation; mitochondria; nuclear maturation; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GILT (SWINE); IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; KARYOTYPE; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; STAINING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; OOCYTES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SWINE;

EID: 77949275263     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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