Oocytes

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Refractile bodies are one of the main morphological abnormalities that can be observed in the cytoplasm of human oocytes.

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Aamir Javed

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'Giant' oocyte with two GV structures, next to normal MII oocyte. Different focal planes to display both GV structures

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Michael L. Reed

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An oocyte extruding polar body (white arrow) possessing pseudo polar body (black arrow). Anaphase meiotic spindle visualized with polarized light microscopy.

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Zuzana Holubcova and Nadezda Janickova

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Abnormality large polar body. A second polar body is at the three-o'clock position. The large strucrure was first noted at the time of oocyte harvest.

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Tatyana Kodyleva

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A mature human oocyte with the cumulus and coronal cells removed ready for ICSI. The polar body can be clearly seen at the 11 o'clock position.

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Thomas Elliott

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Centrally located granular cytoplasm is a rare morphological feature of the oocyte that is diagnosed as a larger, dark, spongy granular area in the cytolpasm.

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Ersan Donmez

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Meiotic spindle in a living human egg imaged by Polscope

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Weihua Wang

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Oocyte in cumulus complex. Photo taked with an Olympus IX70 Inverted microscope.

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Francisco Parera Deniz

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oocyte with 3 polar body

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Iman Halvaei

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Immature human oocyte with two germinal vesicles

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Navid Esfandiari, PhD, HCLD