Growth-promoting effects of different fractions of extra-embryonic coelomic fluid on embryonic development

Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 225-234

  Karabulut, A K ^a   Layfield, R ^c   Pratten, M K ^b  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; ULTRAFILTRATION; WISTAR RAT; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; BODY FLUIDS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ULTRAFILTRATION; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0034242501     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0264.2000.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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