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Female fertility and the zona pellucida

Fertility in female mammals, including mice and humans, is dependent on the presence of a zona pellucida (ZP) around growing oocytes and unfertilized eggs. A ZP is required to stabilize contacts between oocyte microvilli and follicle cell projections that traverse the ZP to form gap junctions that s...

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Autores principales: Wassarman, Paul M, Litscher, Eveline S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8789258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35076396
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.76106