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Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 11-25 , January 2010

Effect of insulin on oogenesis from mouse fetal germ cells in a serum-free 3D culture system

  • L.L. Sun

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Germ Cell Biology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Z.Y. Sun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400042, China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • P. Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Germ Cell Biology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
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  • X.W. Zhai

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Germ Cell Biology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
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  • J. Tang

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Genetics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China
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  • Q.J. Pan

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Germ Cell Biology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
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  • Q.H. Shi

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Genetics, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China
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  • W. Shen

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Germ Cell Biology, College of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 25 February 2009 ,Revised 1 April 2009 ,Accepted 7 October 2009.

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 Lilan Sun undertook studies in animal science in China and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 2005. Subsequently, she undertook studies in animal reproduction and graduated with a Master’s degree in 2008. Since 2008, she has been working in the Department of Gynaecology, Infertility Centre at the Jinan Hospital as a laboratory technician. She is participating in research projects related to the culturing of germ cells in vitro.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00213-2

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.11.001

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