Trophectoderm projections: A potential means for locomotion, attachment and implantation of bovine, equine and human blastocysts

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2739-2745

  Gonzales, D S ^a,c   Jones, J M ^b   Pinyopummintr, T ^a,e   Carnevale, E M ^a,d   Ginther, O J ^a   Shapiro, S S ^b   Bavister, B D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Malik and Seeme Hasan School of Business   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Embryo culture; Embryo movement; Preimplantation embryo; Time lapse videomicrography; Zona pellucida escape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HORSE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0030455329     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019201     Document Type: Article

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