Derivation of Embryonic Stem-Cell Lines from Human Blastocysts

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 350, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1353-1356

  Cowan, Chad A ^a   Klimanskaya, Irina ^a   McMahon, Jill ^a   Atienza, Jocelyn ^a   Witmyer, Jeannine ^b   Zucker, Jacob P ^a   Wang, Shunping ^b   Morton, Cynthia C ^c   McMahon, Andrew P ^a   Powers, Doug ^b   Melton, Douglas A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON IVF   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CYTOPLASM; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

BLASTOCYST; CELL LINE; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYO; HUMANS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 12144288049     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr040330     Document Type: Article

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