Temporal and spatial aspects of fragmentation in early human embryos: Possible effects on developmental competence and association with the differential elimination of regulatory proteins from polarized domains

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 429-447

  Antczak, Michael ^a   Van Blerkom, Jonathan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Reproductive Genetics Center   (United States)

^c Columbia Rose Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Developmental competence; Embryo fragmentation; Polarized protein domains; Preimplantation development

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; LEPTIN; LIPOCORTIN 5; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL X; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO;

EID: 0033051679     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.2.429     Document Type: Article

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