Article
The molecular genetics of the zona pellucida: mouse mutations and infertility.
Molecular human reproduction - 1 Nov 1996
Rankin T, Dean J
Abstract excerpt
The zona pellucida is an extracellular matrix surrounding growing oocytes, ovulated eggs and the preimplantation embryo. After mediating the relatively species-specific events of fertilization, the zona pellucida provides a post-fertilization block to polyspermy and protects the growing embryo as...
Topics
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Disease Models, Animal
- Egg Proteins
- Embryonic and Fetal Development
- Female
- Fertility
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Infertility, Female
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Mice
- Mice, Knockout
- Molecular Biology
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Cell Surface