Intracellular cathepsin B activity is inversely correlated with the quality and developmental competence of bovine preimplantation embryos

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1031-1039

  Balboula, A Z ^a,b   Yamanaka, K ^a   Sakatani, M ^a   Hegab, A O ^b   Zaabel, S M ^b   Takahashi, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CATHEPSIN B; CATTLE; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LEUCINE; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BOVINAE;

EID: 78650450646     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21250     Document Type: Article

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