Rat eggs cannot wait: Spontaneous exit from meiotic metaphase-II arrest

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 78, Issue 10-11, 2011, Pages 795-807

  Chebotareva, Tatiana ^a   Taylor, Jane ^a   Mullins, John J ^b   Wilmut, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; ALCOHOL; ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX; CALCIUM; CHLORAL HYDRATE; CYCLIN B1; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYTOCHALASIN; DEMECOLCINE; GONADOTROPIN; IONOMYCIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N [2 [[N [3 (4 CHLOROPHENYL) 2 PROPENYL] N METHYLAMINO]METHYL]PHENYL] N (2 HYDROXYETHYL) 4 METHOXYBENZENESULFONAMIDE; NOCODAZOLE; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN KINASE C; PUROMYCIN; SECURIN; THIOMERSAL;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANAPHASE; ANOXIA; APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DEATH; CHROMATIN; COLD EXPOSURE; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; CUMULUS CELL; CYTOPLASM; EGG PRODUCTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FERTILIZATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GAMETE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; INTERPHASE; LONG EVANS RAT; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OSCILLATION; OVIDUCT; OVULATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SPERM; SPONTANEOUS ACTIVATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUPEROVULATION; UBIQUITINATION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOGENESIS; OVUM; PARTHENOGENESIS; RATS; TIME FACTORS;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 80054732034     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21385     Document Type: Review

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