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SUBMITTER: Wood BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2761072 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wood Bayden R BR Chernenko Tatyana T Matthäus Christian C Diem Max M Chong Connie C Bernhard Uditha U Jene Cassandra C Brandli Alice A AA McNaughton Don D Tobin Mark J MJ Trounson Alan A Lacham-Kaplan Orly O
Analytical chemistry 20081201 23
Synchrotron Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) and Raman microspectroscopy were applied to investigate changes in the molecular architecture of mouse oocytes and demonstrate the overall morphology of the maturing oocyte. Here we show that differences were identified between immature mouse oocytes at the germinal vesicle (GV) and mature metaphase II (MII) stage when using this technology, without the introduction of any extrinsic markers, labels, or dyes. GV mouse oocytes were found to have a sma ...[more]