oocyte

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Three regions within the oocyte are arbitrarily selected, and depicted in Green, Red and Yellow boxes.

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  1. noun A cell from which an egg or ovum develops by meiosis; a female gametocyte.

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  • Diffusional membrane permeability (P (d)) for the Xenopus oocyte, an important model system for water channel investigation, is typically calculated from intracellular water pre-exchange lifetime, cell volume, and cell surface area. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • But using human cells did reprogram the egg cell, or oocyte, and activate the genes needed to make a viable embryo, Lanza and colleagues reported in the journal Cloning and Stem Cells. —  NY Post: News
  • For each oocyte, a maximal projection of 10 planes was performed. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The ability of this protein (YFP-TPX2ΔN) to rescue TPX2 depletion in the oocyte was investigated. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Immediately thereafter, the oocyte is ovulated by increasing contraction of the myoepithelial gonadal sheath and relaxation of the distal spermatheca. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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