Increased Birefringence in the Meiotic Spindle Provides a New Marker for the Onset of Activation in Living Oocytes1
Open Access
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biology of Reproduction
- Vol. 63 (1) , 251-258
- https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod63.1.251
Abstract
The newly developed Pol-Scope allows imaging of spindle retardance, which is an optical property of organized macromolecular structures that can be oKeywords
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