Responsiveness of bovine cumulus-oocyte-complexes (COC) to porcine and recombinant human FSH, and the effect of COC quality on gonadotropin receptor and Cx43 marker gene mRNAs during maturation in vitro

• Egile Nagusiak: Caveney Anita N (Egilea), Calder Michele D (Egilea), Smith Lawrence C (Egilea), Watson Andrew J (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: BMC, 2003-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Substantially less development to the blastocyst stage occurs in vitro than in vivo and this may be due to deficiencies in oocyte competence. Although a large proportion of bovine oocytes undergo spontaneous nuclear maturation, less is known about requirements fo...