Portrait of an oocyte: Our obscure origin

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 973-983

  Gosden, Roger ^a   Lee, Bora ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MATURATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GERM CELL; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 77951149268     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI41294     Document Type: Review

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