Concept information
Preferred term
Oocytes
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- Female germ cells derived from OOGONIA and termed OOCYTES when they enter MEIOSIS. The primary oocytes begin meiosis but are arrested at the diplotene state until OVULATION at PUBERTY to give rise to haploid secondary oocytes or ova (OVUM).
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Entry terms
- Ovocytes
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- chemistry (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- cytology (Qualifier)
- drug effects (Qualifier)
- enzymology (Qualifier)
- growth & development (Qualifier)
- immunology (Qualifier)
- metabolism (Qualifier)
- microbiology (Qualifier)
- parasitology (Qualifier)
- pathology (Qualifier)
- physiology (Qualifier)
- radiation effects (Qualifier)
- transplantation (Qualifier)
- ultrastructure (Qualifier)
- virology (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Oocyte
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Oocytes
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Ovocyte
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-MNQD6J57-0
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