Symmetrical division of mouse oocytes during meiotic maturation can lead to the development of twin embryos that amalgamate to form a chimeric hermaphrodite

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 380-387

  Otsuki, Junko ^a   Nagai, Yasushi ^a   Lopata, Alexander ^b   Chiba, Kazuyoshi ^c   Yasmin, Lubna ^d   Sankai, Tadashi ^d  

^a Nagai Clinic   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 celled oocytes; chimera; embryo amalgamation; hermaphrodite origin; meiotic spindle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; IN VITRO STUDY; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

MUS;

EID: 84855895910     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der408     Document Type: Article

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