Use of a laser to evaluate zona pellucida hardness at different stages of mouse embryonic development in vitro and in vivo

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 178-181

  Montag, Markus ^a   Koll, Britta ^a   Van Der Ven, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GERMANY; LASER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033912798     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1017257824215     Document Type: Article

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