What does UFO stand for?

Unfertilized Oocyte

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Intracellular injections of a soluble sperm factor trigger calcium oscillations and meiotic maturation in unfertilized oocytes of a marine worm.

Involvement of [Ca.sup.2+] signaling pathway during oocyte maturation ...

General topics of papers include mitochondrial diseas models (such as for insulin resistance), mitochondrial genome (including several papers on the effect of mitochondria on DNA structure), mitochondrial function, including mitochondrial effects on unfertilized oocytes and arrested embryos, oxidative stress, antioxidants, and apoptosis.

The role of the mitochondria in human aging and disease; from genes ...

This may have been due to rapid resorption of unfertilized oocytes or an artifact of the fragile nature of fertilized ovaries, which made it difficult to obtain representative histological preparations.

Maturity, ovarian cycle, fecundity, and age-specific parturition of ...