The competence of germinal vesicle oocytes is unrelated to nuclear chromatin configuration and strictly depends on cytoplasmic quantity and quality in the cat model

Human Reproduction

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2165-2177

  Comizzoli, P ^a,b   Pukazhenthi, B S ^a,b   Wildt, D E ^a,b  

^a Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

animal model; assisted reproduction; chromatin; germinal vesicle; oocyte quality

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GERMINAL VESICLE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 79960485579     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der176     Document Type: Article

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