Frank Longo

Fertilization

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edition provides the reader with an introduction to this subject. During the past five years there has been a virtual explosion of information on the different phases of fertilization.This book should be of interest to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in developmental biology, zoology and cell biology; researchers entering the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Garland Science
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780412563508
• ISBN-10: 0412563509
• Artikelnr.: 25205454

Autorenporträt

Frank Longo

Inhaltsangabe

1. General considerations of fertilization: a definition. 2. The
spermatozoon. 3. Sperm-egg binding. 4. Gamete fusion and sperm
incorporation. 5. Egg activation. 6. Blocks to polyspermy and the cortical
granule reaction. 7. Alterations in the egg cortex and cytoskeleton. 8.
Resumption of meiotic maturation. 9. Metabolic alterations at egg
activation. 10. Development of the male pronucleus. 11. Aspects regulating
the development. 12. Fate of incorporated sperm mitochondria, flagella and
perinuclear structures. 13. Centrosome expression, sperm aster assembly and
pronuclear migration. 14. Association of the male and female pronuclei: the
concluding events of fertilization. 15. Maniuplation and in vitro
fertilization of human and other mammalian gametes.