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Published in final edited form as: Fertil Steril. 2008 Aug 9;91(5 Suppl):2051–2060. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.069

TABLE 2.

Proportions of nuclear stages in groups of denuded oocytes (DOs) and cumulus-oocytes complexes (COCs) after 28 h of culture with or without FSH/LH, in the presence or absence of 1-heptanol, and either separately or in co-culture.

	FSH/LH	1-heptanol	n	% GV^*	% GVBD^*	% MI^*	% MII^*
DOs cultured separately	−	−	69	94.2^a	0.0^a	0.0^a	0.0^a
DOs cultured separately	−	+	77	93.5^a	0.0^a	0.0^a	0.0^a
DOs cultured separately	+	−	78	0.0^b	32.1^b	41.0^b	21.8^b
DOs cultured separately	+	+	80	0.0^b	30.0^b	37.5^b	27.5^b
COCs cultured separately	−	−	77	0.0^b	39.0^b	58.4^c	0.0^a
COCs cultured separately	−	+	74	95.9^a	0.0^a	0.0^a	0.0^a
COCs cultured separately	+	−	70	0.0^b	2.9^ac	14.3^d	78.6^c
COCs cultured separately	+	+	80	0.0^b	27.5^b	42.5^b	25.0^b
DOs co-cultured with COCs	−	−	71	97.2^a	0.0^a	0.0^a	0.0^a
COCs co-cultured with DOs	−	−	80	0.0^b	37.5^b	60.0^c	0.0^a
DOs co-cultured with COCs	−	+	73	98.6^a	0.0^a	0.0^a	0.0^a
COCs co-cultured with DOs	−	+	75	96.0^a	0.0^a	0.0^a	0.0^a
DOs co-cultured with COCs	+	−	85	0.0^b	5.9^c	11.8^d	78.8^c
COCs co-cultured with DOs	+	−	83	0.0^b	6.0^c	15.7^d	74.7^c
DOs co-cultured with COCs	+	+	81	0.0^b	30.9^b	38.3^b	29.6^b
COCs co-cultured with DOs	+	+	80	0.0^b	31.3^b	40.0^b	23.8^b

^*

Germinal Vesicle (GV), germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD), metaphase I (MI), metaphase II (MII).

Within the same column, values with different superscripts differ (P < 0.05; Chi-square test).