Preimplantation embryo morphology following early luteal phase anti-nidatory treatment with mifepristone (RU486) in the rhesus monkey

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 180-188

  Ghosh, D ^a   Lalitkumar, P G L ^a   Wong, Viviana J ^b   Hendrickx, A G ^b   Scngupta, Jayasrcc ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Inner cell mass; Mifepristone; Morula; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

ABORTIVE AGENT; FAT DROPLET; LIPOFUSCIN; MIFEPRISTONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POLARITY; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; LAPAROTOMY; LUTEAL PHASE; LYSOSOME; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOLOGY; MORULA; MYELINOID BODY; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PHAGOSOME; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; RHESUS MONKEY; TROPHOBLAST; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0033967483     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.1.180     Document Type: Article

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