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Oocyte reaction to penetrating sperm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

G. Galeati
G. Galeati
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Istituto di Fisiologia Veterinaria-Ozzano Emilia, Bologna, Italy
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Before fertilisation the egg is metabolically quiescent and its nucleus is arrested at metaphase of the second meiosis. After sperm-egg fusion, the arrested nucleus resumes meiosis, and then changes into the female pronucleus. Such a sequence of morphological and biochemical events is called “activation”. The inital responses of the egg to activation by the sperm include cortical granule exocytosis and resumption of meiosis.

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Zygote , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , November 1994 , pp. 355 - 358
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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