Interleukin-2 production by human pre-implantation embryos

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 331-334

  Orvieto, R ^a,b   Bar Hava, I ^a   Schwartz, A ^a   Shelef, M ^a   Ben Rafael, Z ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization; Interleukin 2; Pre implantation embryos

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030731358     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513599709152557     Document Type: Article

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