Archival fixed and analysed preimplantation human embryonic cells: A DNA resource for retrospective PCR analysis at the cellular level

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-155

  Smith, T A ^a   Wall, M B ^a   Muggleton Harris, A L ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archival; Embryonic cell(s); Human; Retrospective genetic analysis

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CHEMISTRY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DNA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031064906     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/3.2.149     Document Type: Article

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