Ceramide and mitochondrial function in aging oocytes: Joggling a new hypothesis and old players

Reproduction

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Kujjo, Loro L ^a,b   Perez, Gloria I ^b,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LARCel   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; CERAMIDE; CERAMIDE TRANSFER PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; HUMAN; MATURATION; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CERAMIDES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84855678683     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-11-0350     Document Type: Review

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