Polarized light microscopy in mammalian oocytes

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 49-56

  Caamano J N ^a   Munoz M ^a   Diez, C ^a   Gomez E ^a  

^a Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REPRODUCTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MICROTUBULES; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77954063768     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2010.01621.x     Document Type: Article

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