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Monitoring Calcium Oscillations in Fertilized Mouse Eggs

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In mammalian species, including human, fertilization is characterized by the triggering of long-lasting calcium (Ca(2+)) oscillations in the egg cytoplasm. The monitoring of these Ca(2+) oscillations is a valuable technique to demonstrate that fertilization has occurred, to study egg activation events elicited downstream of the Ca(2+) signal, as well as to evaluate sperm quality. This chapter describes our protocol to monitor sperm-induced Ca(2+) oscillations in mouse eggs, using fluorescence microscopy techniques and the Fura-2-AM ratiometric Ca(2+) indicator.
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hal-01439381 , version 1 (24-03-2017)

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Guillaume Halet. Monitoring Calcium Oscillations in Fertilized Mouse Eggs. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2016, 1457, pp.231-240. ⟨10.1007/978-1-4939-3795-0_17⟩. ⟨hal-01439381⟩
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