Isolation and culture of micromeres and primary mesenchyme cells

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 2004, Issue 74, 2004, Pages 273-285

  Wilt, Fred H ^a   Benson, Stephen C ^b  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL MODEL; BLASTOMERE; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MESODERM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SEA URCHIN;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MESODERM; MODELS, ANIMAL; SEA URCHINS;

EID: 16644401623     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(04)74012-1     Document Type: Review

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