Cruciate thinning of the zona pellucida for more successful enhancement of blastocyst hatching in the mouse

Human Reproduction

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 532-536

  Khalifa, Essam Aldein M ^a,b   Tucker, Michael J ^a   Hunt, Patricia ^c  

^a REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid Tyrode's; Blastocyst hatching; Micromanipulation; Zona thinning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HATCHING; MICROSCOPY; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SUPEROVULATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICROMANIPULATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0026550709     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a137685     Document Type: Article

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