Conceptus polarity and cell-zona adhesion during early cleavage (fertilized tubal egg to 8-cell stage) in the marsupial Sminthopsis macroura

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-24

  Kress, Annetrudi ^a,c   Selwood, Lynne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cell zona adhesion; Early cleavage stages; Extracellular matrix; Marsupial

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; EGG YOLK; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE TUBE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; MARSUPIALIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREGNANCY; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZYGOTE;

METATHERIA; SMINTHOPSIS; SMINTHOPSIS MACROURA;

EID: 0242405811     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073433     Document Type: Article

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