Osmolarity-dependent glycine accumulation indicates a role for glycine as an organic osmolyte in early preimplantation mouse embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 225-232

  Dawson, Kerri M ^a   Collins, Jennifer L ^a   Baltz, Jay M ^a,b,c  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; HYPERTONIC SOLUTION; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL VOLUME; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OSMOLARITY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GLYCINE; HYPOTONIC SOLUTIONS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PREGNANCY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031928733     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.225     Document Type: Article

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