Expression of mRNA for the insulin-like growth factors and their receptors in human preimplantation embryos

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 134-139

  Lighten, Antony D ^a   Hardy, Kate ^a   Winston, Robert M L ^a   Moore, Gudrun E ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

development; reverse tranription polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR)

Indexed keywords

SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030982975     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199706)47:2<134::AID-MRD2>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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