Fine structure of bovine morulae and blastocysts in vivo and in vitro

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 519-527

  Abe, H ^a   Otoi, T ^b,c   Tachikawa, S ^b   Yamashita, S ^a   Satoh, T ^a   Hoshi, H ^a  

^a Res Inst for the Funct Peptides   (Japan)

^b Tokushima Pref Beef Cattle Swine E   (Japan)

^c YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Embryo culture; Lipid droplet; Morphology

Indexed keywords

FAT DROPLET;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; COLOR; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GOLGI COMPLEX; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; LYSOSOME; MICROVILLUS; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SUPEROVULATION; TROPHOBLAST; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MORULA; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0001569010     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050249     Document Type: Article

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