New advances in human embryology: Morphofunctional relationship between the embryo and the yolk sac

Medical Molecular Morphology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 67-78

  Pereda T , Jaime ^a   Motta, Pietro M ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Human development; Human embryo; Human yolk sac; Vitelline duct; Yolk stalk

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE;

AMNION FLUID; ANGIOGENESIS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL SECRETION; CHORION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYOLOGY; ENDODERM; EXCRETION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; MESENCHYME; MESOTHELIUM; MICROVILLUS; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SALPINGECTOMY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; UMBILICAL CORD; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0032699004     PISSN: 18601480     EISSN: 18601499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007950050011     Document Type: Review

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