Centrosome dynamics during mammalian oocyte maturation with a focus on meiotic spindle formation

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 78, Issue 10-11, 2011, Pages 757-768

  Schatten, Heide ^a   Sun, Qing Yuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA TUBULIN; MYOSIN; NUCLEAR MITOTIC APPARATUS PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PERICENTRIN; RHO FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ANEUPLOIDY; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTION; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRIOLE; CENTROSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; FERTILIZATION; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERPHASE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SPINDLE FORMATION; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PHOSPHORYLATION AND DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMETAPHASE; PROPHASE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINDLE POLE BODY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CENTROSOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; SEA URCHINS;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SUS;

EID: 80054735368     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.21380     Document Type: Review

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