Molecular Study of Mouse Peri-Implantation Development Using the In Vitro Culture of Aggregated Inner Cell Mass

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-90

  Alarcón, Vernadeth B ^a   Marikawa, Yusuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Body axis; Embryo; Germ layer; Immunosurgery; Tissue explant

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

AMNION CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOWN REGULATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDODERM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; UPREGULATION;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0345447451     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20015     Document Type: Article

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