Epithelial cadherin distribution in abnormal human pre-implantation embryos

Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3369-3375

  Alikani, Mina ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Typho Galileo Research Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Compaction; E cadherin; Fragmentation; Trophectoderm

Indexed keywords

PLACENTA PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; UVOMORULIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MORPHOGENESIS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 28544432717     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei242     Document Type: Article

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