One-step versus two-step culture of mouse preimplantation embryos [1]

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1935-1936

  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

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; EDETIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMINE; OIL; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE;

BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIUM; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXENCEPHALY; INNER CELL MASS; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; ZYGOTE;

EID: 33745844053     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del070     Document Type: Letter

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