Impact of vitrification on the meiotic spindle and components of the microtubule-organizing center in mouse mature oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Tamura, Aileen N ^a   Huang, Thomas T F ^a,b   Marikawa, Yusuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Department of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Cryopreservation; Meiotic spindle; Oocyte; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; GAMMA TUBULIN; NEDD1 PROTEIN; PACLITAXEL; PERICENTRIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTRAL MICROTUBULE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; POLAR BODY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPINDLE POLE; TIME-LAPSE VIDEO MICROSCOPY; VITRIFICATION;

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CRYOPRESERVATION; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; OOCYTE; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEUTERIUM OXIDE; FEMALE; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ORGANIZING CENTER; OOCYTES; PACLITAXEL; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84901000948     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.108167     Document Type: Article

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