Mechanics of human blastocyst hatching in vitro

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 228-234

  Sathananthan, Henry ^a   Menezes, Judith ^b   Gunasheela, Sulochana ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Gunasheela Institute Res for Repro   (India)

Author keywords

Blastocysts; Fine structure; Hatching; Human; Zona breakers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTULA; CELL FUNCTION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOSOME; EMBRYO; EMBRYO POLARITY; EPITHELIUM; FLUID INTAKE; HATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IN VITRO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; TONOFILAMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPHOBLAST; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0141627543     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61757-9     Document Type: Article

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