Expression of vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA in human preimplantation embryos derived from tripronuclear zygotes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1220-1226

  Krüssel, Jan Steffen ^a,b   Behr, Barry ^a   Hirchenhain, Jens ^b   Wen, Yan ^a   Milki, Amin A ^a   Cupisti, Susanne ^b   Bielfeld, Peter ^b   Polan, Mary Lake ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cytokines; Growth factors; Implantation; Preimplantation embryo; RT PCR; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZYGOTE;

CELL NUCLEUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; PREGNANCY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0033638476     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)01581-8     Document Type: Article

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