Investigation of gene expression profiles before and after embryonic genome activation and assessment of functional pathways at the human metaphase II oocyte and blastocyst stage

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Kakourou, Georgia ^a,c   Jaroudi, Souraya ^a   Tulay, Pinar ^a   Heath, Carleen ^b   Serhal, Paul ^b   Harper, Joyce C ^a   Sengupta, Sioban B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

hormone receptors; hormones; housekeeping genes; human blastocyst; human embryo; human MII oocyte; microRNA; Preimplantation development

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAPHASE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA EXTRACTION;

EID: 84875229874     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.10.036     Document Type: Article

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