Increased incidence of apoptosis in transforming growth factor α- deficient mouse blastocysts

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 136-144

  Brison, Daniel R ^a,b   Schultz, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PHENOTYPE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031745605     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.1.136     Document Type: Article

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