Perturbations in mouse embryo development and viability caused by ammonium are more severe after exposure at the cleavage stages

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 288-294

  Zander, Deirdre L ^a   Thompson, Jeremy G ^a   Lane, Michelle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Repromed   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Early development; Embryo; Gene regulation; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLUCOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; INNER CELL MASS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLC2A3 GENE; STRESS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL VIABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUCOSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PREGNANCY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 31044437429     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.046235     Document Type: Article

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