Lipids and oocyte developmental competence: The role of fatty acids and β-oxidation

Reproduction

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dunning, Kylie R ^a   Russell, Darryl L ^a   Robker, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET; FATTY ACID; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LINOLEIC ACID; MYRISTIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR B; STEARIC ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

BLASTOCYST; BODY COMPOSITION; CELL MATURATION; CUMULUS CELL; CYTOPLASM; DAIRY CATTLE; DIET; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENERGY YIELD; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; LACTATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOLYSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; LIPID METABOLISM; OOCYTES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 84903575335     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0251     Document Type: Review

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