Similar effects of osmolarity, glucose, and phosphate on cleavage past the 2-cell stage in mouse embryos from outbred and F1 hybrid females

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 179-187

  Hadi, Timin ^a   Hammer, Mary Anne ^a   Algire, Carolyn ^a   Richards, Tiffany ^b   Baltz, Jay M ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptus; Embryo; Environment

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE PHOSPHATE; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENOTYPE; HYBRID; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OSMOLARITY; OUTBRED STRAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUCOSE; GLYCINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10944252152     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.033324     Document Type: Article

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