Reproductive Biology - Fertilization Mechanism and Reproductive Engineering

Author: Chen Daquan
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Publish Date: 2000-08-29
Features: This book serves as a guide and reference for researchers in the field of embryonic engineering, including in vitro fertilization, micromanipulation, and animal cloning. It is particularly suitable for students and researchers in medical, agricultural, and comprehensive universities who are engaged in related disciplines such as reproductive biology, developmental biology, animal embryology, cell biology, reproduction, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, obstetrics, gynecology, and veterinary medicine. As a discipline that studies the initiation of life, fertilization biology has become one of the core areas of life science research. "Fertilization Biology—Fertilization Mechanisms and Reproductive Engineering" consists of 15 chapters, covering topics such as an overview of fertilization, the regulation of spermatogenesis, the maturation and capacitation of sperm appendages, the acrosome reaction and penetration of the zona pellucida, the maturation and regulation of oocytes, the interaction between sperm and ooplasmic membranes, the mutual activation of sperm and oocytes during fertilization and its mechanisms, the cortical reaction of oocytes and prevention of polyspermy, the rearrangement and reorganization of male pronuclear proteins before and after fertilization, parthenogenetic activation of oocytes, the role of the cytoskeleton in oocyte maturation and fertilization, the role of protein kinases and protein phosphatases in gamete maturation and fertilization, in vitro fertilization, micromanipulation, and animal cloning. It is a comprehensive and systematic monograph that integrates theories of fertilization biology and techniques of reproductive engineering.