Ex vivo early embryo development and effects on gene expression and imprinting

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 361-370

  Gardner, David K ^a   Lane, Michelle ^b  

^a National Foundation for Fertility Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMMONIA; CARBOHYDRATE; CHOLINE; FOLIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; OXYGEN; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA H19; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; EX VIVO STUDY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MATERNAL NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OXYGEN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SERUM;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 15844423514     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD04103     Document Type: Article

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