Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 900-907, March 2009

In vitro–matured rat oocytes have low mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid and adenosine triphosphate contents and have abnormal mitochondrial redistribution

  • Hai-tao Zeng, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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  • William S.B. Yeung, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region
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  • May P.L. Cheung, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region
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  • Pak-Chung Ho, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region
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  • Calvin K.F. Lee, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region
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  • Guang-lun Zhuang, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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  • Xiao-yan Liang, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
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  • Wai-Sum O, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Wai-Sum O, Ph.D., Department of Anatomy, University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China (FAX: 852-2817-0857).

Received 10 July 2007; received in revised form 5 December 2007; accepted 5 December 2007. published online 05 March 2008.

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 Supported by a grant from the Committee on Research and Conference Grants at the University of Hong Kong (10207287.03678.20200.323.01; Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, China).

PII: S0015-0282(07)04190-8

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.008

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 900-907, March 2009