The development of mouse zygotes after fusion with synchronous and asynchronous cytoplasm

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1287-1292

  Levron, Jacob ^a,c   Willadsen, Steen ^a,b   Bertoli, Massimo ^d   Cohen, Jacques ^a  

^a SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Sand Lake Hospital   (United States)

^c Mayor las Fuerzas Armadas de Israel   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cytoplast; Electrofusion; Implantation; Meiosis; Preimplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030055790     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019373     Document Type: Article

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