Vitrification at the pre-antral stage transiently alters inner mitochondrial membrane potential but proteome of in vitro grown and matured mouse oocytes appears unaffected

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1096-1111

  Demant, Myriam ^a   Trapphoff, Tom ^b   Fröhlich, Thomas ^a   Arnold, Georg J ^a   Eichenlaub Ritter, Ursula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

follicle development; gene expression; mitochondria; oocyte quality

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMINAL VESICLE; IN VITRO STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAPHASE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84858405854     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der453     Document Type: Article

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