Comparison of pre-and post-implantation development following the application of three artificial activating stimuli in a mouse model with round-headed sperm cells deficient for oocyte activation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1190-1198

  Vanden Meerschaut, F ^a   Nikiforaki, D ^a   De Roo, C ^a   Lierman, S ^a   Qian, C ^a   Schmitt John, T ^b   De Sutter, P ^a   Heindryckx, B ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

assisted oocyte activation; globozoospermia; ICSI; post implantation development; wobbler mouse model

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; IONOMYCIN; STRONTIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOTHER; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; SPERMATOZOON HEAD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876526775     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/det038     Document Type: Article

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