Junyan Sun et al.
Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 17(13), 1591-1601 (2018-06-19)
Psychological stress, which exerts detrimental effects on human reproduction, may compromise the meiotic competence of oocytes. Meiotic resumption, germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD), is the first milestone to confer meiotic competence to oocytes. In the practice of assisted reproductive technology (ART)