Effect of amino acids and α-amanitin on the development of rabbit embryos in modified protein-free KSOM with HEPES

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-162

  Liu, Zishu ^a   Foote, Robert H ^a   Simkin, Michael E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Amanitin; Amino acids; KSOM; Rabbit embryos

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; AMINO ACID; GLYCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

AMANITINS; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEPES; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PREGNANCY; RABBITS;

CICONIIFORMES; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0029847186     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199610)45:2<157::AID-MRD8>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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