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- noun Plural form of
oocyte .
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Examples
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The team from the US and Japan then transferred this gene, along with the one for GFP, into feline eggs - known as oocytes.
BBC News - Home 2011
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It is presently accepted in scientific circles that the production of eggs, known as oocytes, stops before birth for most species of mammals, including humans.
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It is presently accepted in scientific circles that the production of eggs, known as oocytes, stops before birth for most species of mammals, including humans.
Reuters: Top News 2009
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The new policy is expected to increase the availability of eggs, known as oocytes, for study and allow scientists to pursue new avenues of research, said Dr. David Hohn, vice chairman of the board's ethics and funding committees.
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Experts know that the females of most species of mammals, including humans, stop producing eggs, known as oocytes, soon before birth, and that the number of eggs they are born with is the number they will have for the rest of their lives.
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Specialists at McGill University in Montreal have developed a protocol in which they retrieve immature eggs (i.e. "oocytes") from a woman's ovaries, induce the oocytes to mature in a lab dish, then deep-freeze them; the oocytes can then be thawed for fertilisation at a future point.
unknown title 2009
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Maternal diet-induced obesity alters mitochondrial activity and redox status in mouse oocytes and zygotes.
Maternal Excess Weight Stresses Oozytes | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes 2010
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"Without Edwards there would be no market for oocytes (unfertilized eggs); without Edwards there would be no freezers full of embryos waiting to be transplanted into uteruses or, more likely, to be used for research or else die abandoned and forgotten by all," Carrasco said.
Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010
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"Without Edwards there would be no market for oocytes (unfertilized eggs); without Edwards there would be no freezers full of embryos waiting to be transplanted into uteruses or, more likely, to be used for research or else die abandoned and forgotten by all," Carrasco said.
Vatican Expresses 'Perplexity' Over Nobel Awarded To IVF Creator Clay Chiles 2010
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Using an established mouse model of maternal diet-induced obesity and live cell dynamic fluorescence imaging techniques, the researchers demonstrated that maternal obesity prior to conception is associated with altered mitochondria in mouse oocytes (eggs) and zygotes.
Maternal Excess Weight Stresses Oozytes | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes 2010
avivamagnolia commented on the word oocytes
~ Immature female reproductive cell prior to fertilization; derived from an oogonium.
~ It is a primary oocyte prior to completion of the first maturation division, and a secondary oocyte in the period between the first and second maturation divisions.
January 18, 2009