Rapid visualization of metaphase chromosomes in single human blastomeres after fusion with in-vitro matured bovine eggs

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 470-475

  Willadsen, Steen ^a   Levron, Jacob ^b   Munné, Santiago ^a   Schimmel, Tim ^a   Márquez, Carmen ^a   Scott, Richard ^a   Cohen, Jacques ^a,c  

^a Inst Repro Med/Sci St Barnabas   (United States)

^b Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Israel)

^c Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of Saint Barnabas   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrofusion; FISH; Nuclear transplantation; Spectral karyotyping; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CASE REPORT; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0033021910     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.2.470     Document Type: Article

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