Fertilization and development: The stages at which human fertilization arrests: microtubule and chromosome configurations in inseminated oocytes which failed to complete fertilization and development in humans

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The goal of fertilization is the union of one, and only one, sperm nucleus with the female pronucleus within the activated oocyte. For this to occur successfully, several events must transpire, including the incorporation of the entire spermatozoon into the oocyte, the completion of meiotic maturation with the extrusion of the second polar body, the metabolic activation of the previously quiescent oocyte, the...

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