Reply: One-step versus two-step culture of mouse preimplantation embryos [2]

Human Reproduction

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1936-1939

  Biggers, John D ^a   McGinnis, Lynda ^b   Summers, Michael C ^c,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Reproductive Science Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; OIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; HUMAN EMBRYO; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; ZYGOTE;

EID: 33745855888     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del071     Document Type: Letter

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