Transient effects of microgravity on early embryos of Xenopus laevis

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6-7, 1996, Pages 219-223

  De Maziere A ^a   Gonzalez Jurado, J ^a   Reijnen, M ^a   Narraway, J ^a   Ubbels, G A ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL POLARITY; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTRUMENTATION; LARVA; MALE; MASER PROJECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; UNMANNED; WEIGHTLESSNESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MASER PROJECT; SHORT DURATION; UNMANNED;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CENTRIFUGATION; DNA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GASTRULA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LARVA; MALE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; WEIGHTLESSNESS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029683384     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0273-1177(95)00638-U     Document Type: Article

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