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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021

Microinjection Method for Analyzing Zebrafish Early Stage Oocytes.

Manami Kobayashi, Allison Jamieson-Lucy, Mary C Mullins

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Manami KobayashiDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Allison Jamieson-LucyDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Mary C MullinsDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
University of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Oocyte polarity and BMP-mediated dorsoventral patterningR35GM131908 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Mary C. Mullins · 2019 to 2026
$5.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131908
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Maternal factors which accumulate and establish oocyte polarity during the early stages of oogenesis play key roles in embryonic development, as well as germ cell formation. However, vertebrate oogenesis, especially early stages of oogenesis, is not well understood due to the difficulty of accessing these oocytes and the lack of analytical methods. Here, we report on a microinjection method for analyzing zebrafish early-stage oocytes and some artifacts to be aware of when performing oocyte injections or analyzing oocytes. Using this method, we successfully injected mRNAs encoding fluorescent-tagged proteins into early-stage oocytes and observed subcellular localization in the live oocytes. This method is expected to advance the functional analysis of genes involved in oogenesis.

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balbiani bodybucky ballmicroinjectionoocytesoogenesiszebrafish

Identifiers

PMID34820378
PMCPMC8607826
OpenAlexW3213855953

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