Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 341-349 , March 2010

Low oxygen tension during IVM improves bovine oocyte competence and enhances anaerobic glycolysis

  • P. Bermejo-Álvarez

      Affiliations

    • Dpto de Reproducción Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • P. Lonergan

      Affiliations

    • School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Ireland
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  • D. Rizos

      Affiliations

    • Dpto de Reproducción Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain
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  • A. Gutiérrez-Adan

      Affiliations

    • Dpto de Reproducción Animal, INIA, Madrid, Spain

Received 14 June 2009 ,Revised 15 July 2009 ,Accepted 16 November 2009.

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 Mr Bermejo-Álvarez obtained his DVM degree from Complutense University of Madrid, Spain in 2005. As a pre-graduate student he participated in research on implantation mechanisms. He is currently working as a pre-doctoral researcher at Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán laboratory at INIA, awarded by a FPU scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education to obtain his PhD degree. He obtained the first prize of the Student Competition of AETE in 2007 and was selected for the student competition of IETS in 2009 and 2010. His research interests are oocyte and blastocyst molecular quality markers, sexual preimplantation dimorphism and sex ratio.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00283-1

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.006

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