Fertility and Sterility
Volume 86, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1129-1136 , October 2006

Role of cytosolic malate dehydrogenase in oocyte maturation and embryo development

Presented at the 60th annual meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  • Se-Jin Yoon, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • CHA Research Institute, Fertility Center, CHA General Hospital, Seoul
    • Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
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  • Deog-Bon Koo, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Development and Differentiation, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon
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  • Jung Sun Park, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Development and Differentiation, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Daejeon
    • ,
  • Kyung-Hee Choi, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Science, College of Natural Sciences, Chung-Ang University, Seoul
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  • Yong-Mahn Han, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejon
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  • Kyung-Ah Lee, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • CHA Research Institute, Fertility Center, CHA General Hospital, Seoul
    • Graduate School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Pochon CHA University, Seoul, Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Kyung-Ah Lee, Ph.D., Graduate School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Pochon CHA University College of Medicine, 606-13, Yeoksam-1-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-081, Korea (FAX: 82-2-563-2028).

Received 7 October 2005 ,Revised 13 February 2006 ,Accepted 13 February 2006.

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 Supported by a grant from KRIBB Research Initiative Program, Daejeon, Korea.

PII: S0015-0282(06)01080-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.02.105

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 86, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1129-1136 , October 2006

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