Oocyte competency is the key to embryo potential

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 317-322

  Keefe, David ^a   Kumar, Molly ^a   Kalmbach, Keri ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; Fertility; oocyte competency; polar body; telomeres

Indexed keywords

COHESIN; FREE RADICAL; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME CHIASM; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CUMULUS CELL; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA CONTENT; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM CELL; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIFESPAN; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; METAPHASE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; NONDISJUNCTION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POLAR BODY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SISTER CHROMATID; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TELOMERE; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTES; POLAR BODIES; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84923169386     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.12.115     Document Type: Review

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