Recombinant human phospholipase C zeta 1 induces intracellular calcium oscillations and oocyte activation in mouse and human oocytes

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1768-1780

  Yoon, Sook Young ^a   Eum, Jin Hee ^a   Lee, Jeoung Eun ^a   Lee, Hoi Chang ^b   Kim, You Shin ^a   Han, Ji Eun ^a   Won, Hyung Jae ^a   Park, Sang Hee ^a   Shim, Sung Han ^a   Lee, Woo Sik ^a   Fissore, Rafael A ^b   Lee, Dong Ryul ^a   Yoon, Tae Ki ^a  

^a CHA University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Human oocytes; Mouse oocytes; Oocyte activation; Recombinant human phospholipase C zeta 1

Indexed keywords

1 [[6 (3 METHOXYESTRA 1,3,5(10) TRIEN 17BETA YL)AMINO]HEXYL] 1H PYRROLE 2,5 DIONE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME; RECOMBINANT PHOSPHOLIPASE C ZETA I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; METAPHASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PLOIDY; SPERM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS;

EID: 84861561269     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des092     Document Type: Article

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