Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 8 , Pages 2507-2512 , 15 May 2010

Messenger RNA expression of Pabpnl1 and Mbd3l2 genes in oocytes and cleavage embryos

  • Fernando Henrique Biase, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ciências Básicas, Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • ,
  • Lúcia Martelli, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • ,
  • Renato Puga, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • ,
  • Silvana Giuliatti, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Genética, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • ,
  • Weruska Karyna Freitas Santos-Biase, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ciências Básicas, Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • ,
  • Giovana Krempel Fonseca Merighe, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ciências Básicas, Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • ,
  • Flávio Vieira Meirelles, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Ciências Básicas, Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Flávio Vieira Meirelles, Departamento de Ciências Básicas, USP-FZEA, Rua Duque de Caxias Norte, 225, Pirassununga–SP, 13635-900, Brazil (FAX: 55 19 3565 4117).

Received 28 January 2009 ,Revised 18 August 2009 ,Accepted 19 August 2009.

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 F.H.B. has nothing to disclose. L.M. has nothing to disclose. R.P. has nothing to disclose. S.G. has nothing to disclose. W.K.F.S.B. has nothing to disclose. G.K.F.M. has nothing to disclose. F.V.M. has nothing to disclose.

 Supported by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil.

PII: S0015-0282(09)03589-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.08.051

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 8 , Pages 2507-2512 , 15 May 2010

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