The use of Matrigel at low concentration enhances in vitro blastocyst formation and hatching in a mouse embryo model

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1133-1137

  Lazzaroni, L ^a   Fusi, F M ^a   Doldi, N ^a   Ferrari, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cocultures; Embryos; Hatching; Matrigel

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; MATRIGEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BODY FLUIDS; COLLAGEN; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; LAMININ; MICE; PROTEOGLYCANS; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE;

EID: 0033152554     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00149-1     Document Type: Article

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