Mammalian oocyte polarity can be exploited for the automation of somatic cell nuclear transfer - in the development of a 'cloning biochip'

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 420-421

  Heng, Boon Chin ^a   Stojkovic, Miodrag ^b   Vajta, Gábor ^c   Cao, Tong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHIP; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL POLARITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENUCLEATION; LETTER; MICROENVIRONMENT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CELL POLARITY; CLONING, ORGANISM; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33744937052     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.11.011     Document Type: Letter

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