Effects of combined epidermal growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and insulin-like growth factor-1 on human oocyte maturation and early fertilized and cloned embryo development

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2146-2159

  Yu, Yang ^a,b,c   Yan, Jie ^a,c   Li, Min ^a,c   Yan, Liying ^a,c   Zhao, Yue ^a,c   Lian, Ying ^a,c   Li, Rong ^a   Liu, Ping ^a,c   Qiao, Jie ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Beijing Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

embryo development; growth factors; human oocytes; in vitro maturation; somatic cell nuclear transfer

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION;

EID: 84863564650     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des099     Document Type: Article

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