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Smoking and reproduction: The oviduct as a target of cigarette smoke

Prue Talbot email and Karen Riveles email

Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2005, 3:52doi:10.1186/1477-7827-3-52

Published: 28 September 2005

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Additional File 1:

Video movie showing a stained oocyte cumulus complex (blue) being pick-up by a hamster infundibulum. The complex adheres to the surface of the oviduct and is pulled along towards the ostium by ciliary beating. Reprinted from Molec Biol Cell 10:5–9, 1999 (with permission).

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Additional File 2:

Video movies showing a control (right) and smoke treated infundibulum. The oocyte cumulus complex (blue) on the control oviduct moves over the surface of the infundibulum and is picked up at the normal rate. In the smoke exposed preparation, the oocyte cumulus complex barely moves during the same interval of time. Reprinted from Molec Biol Cell 10:5–9, 1999 (with permission).

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