Effect of maternal age and conditions of fertilization on programmed cell death during murine preimplantation embryo development

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 139-145

  Jurisicova, Andrea ^a,b,c   Rogers, Ian ^b   Fasciani, Alessandro ^a   Casper, Robert F ^a   Varmuza, Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Embryo fragmentation; IVF; Maternal age; Mouse; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MATERNAL AGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; MICE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031930570     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.2.139     Document Type: Article

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