Amphiregulin promotes the maturation of oocytes isolated from the small antral follicles of the rhesus macaque

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2430-2437

  Peluffo, Marina C ^a   Ting, Alison Y ^b   Zamah, Alberuni M ^c   Conti, Marco ^d   Stouffer, Richard L ^b,e   Zelinski, Mary B ^b   Hennebold, Jon D ^a,e  

^a HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphiregulin; Embryo development; Oocyte maturation; Rhesus monkeys; Small antral follicle

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; RHESUS MONKEY;

EID: 84867805022     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des158     Document Type: Article

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