Fertile offspring derived from mammalian eggs lacking either animal or vegetal poles

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 4803-4808

  Zernicka Goetz, Magdalena ^a  

^a WELLCOME CRC INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal vegetal polarity; Mammalian egg; Mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; FEMALE; MAMMAL CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BODY PATTERNING; CELL POLARITY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MORULA; OVUM; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032414527     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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