Diagnosing and preventing inherited disease: An analysis of multinucleated blastomere formation in human embryos

Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1912-1922

  Pickering, Susan J ^a,b   Taylor, Alison ^b   Johnson, Martin H ^a   Braude, Peter R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aberrant cleavage; Acytokinesis; Culture medium; Multinucleated blastomeres

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINESIS; DNA CONTENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO CULTURE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0029114436     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a136206     Document Type: Article

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