Cumulus-oocyte complexes from small antral follicles during the early follicular phase of menstrual cycles in rhesus monkeys yield oocytes that reinitiate meiosis and fertilize in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 525-532

  Peluffo, Marina C ^a   Barrett, Susan L ^b,c   Stouffer, Richard L ^a,d   Hennebold, Jon D ^a,d   Zelinski, Mary B ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulus oocyte complex; Follicular phase; Oocyte maturation; Rhesus monkeys

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; FERTILIZER; GONADOTROPIN; HYALURONIDASE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; CUMULUS CELLS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY;

MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77957574164     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.084418     Document Type: Article

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