Protein supplementation and the incidence of apoptosis and oxidative stress in mouse embryos

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 653-660

  Esfandiari, Navid ^b   Falcone, Tommaso ^b   Agarwal, Ashok ^b   Attaran, Marjan ^b   Nelson, David R ^b   Sharma, Rakesh K ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY FLUIDS; CELL COUNT; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLASMA SUBSTITUTES; PROTEINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 13944278085     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000152384.91385.71     Document Type: Article

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