How to increase the permeability of mouse Zona Pellucida?

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Subhash C. Juneja

Curious, what is the experiment you are trying to do. You want in isolated zonae or live oocytes.

Mohamed Darwish

I want to do it in live oocytes

When one sperm enter the oocyte, there is natural process- block of ZP to polyspermy. If you try to increase permeability, the block to polyspermy may be jeopardized