Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages 2043-2050 , May 2009

Nuclear maturation and structural components of nonhuman primate cumulus–oocyte complexes during in vivo and in vitro maturation

  • Jenna K. Nyholt de Prada, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • California National Primate Research Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, California
    • ,
  • Dana L. Hill, B.S.

      Affiliations

    • California National Primate Research Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, California
    • ,
  • Charles L. Chaffin, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
    • ,
  • Catherine A. VandeVoort, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • California National Primate Research Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, California
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of California-Davis, Davis, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Catherine A. VandeVoort, Ph.D., California National Primate Research Center, University of California-Davis, Roads 98 and Hutchison, Davis, CA 95616.

Received 5 March 2008 ,Revised 24 April 2008 ,Accepted 1 May 2008.

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 J.K.N.d.P. has nothing to disclose. D.L.H. has nothing to disclose. C.L.C. has nothing to disclose. C.A.V. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported by RR13439 (C.A.V.), RR00169 (California National Primate Research Center), and NIH HD043358 (C.L.C.)

PII: S0015-0282(08)01064-9

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.013

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