Postimplantation development of mouse blastocysts with two separate inner cell masses

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 467-471

  Ozdzeński, Wacław ^a   Szczȩsny, Elzbieta ^a   Tarkowski, Andrzej K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Electrofusion; Embryo; Fetal membranes; Placenta; Twins

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL FUSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; HISTOLOGY; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; TWINS; VERSION, FETAL;

EID: 0030906429     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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