In-vitro developmental potential of individual mouse blastomeres cultured with and without zona pellucida: Future implications for human assisted reproduction

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 284-294

  Illmensee, K ^a,b   Kaskar, K ^b,c   Zavos, Panayiotis M ^a,b,c  

^a Reprogen Ltd   (Cyprus)

^b Andrology Institute of America   (United States)

^c Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technologies; Blastomere biopsy; Blastomere cloning; Culture in vitro; Mouse preimplantation embryos

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HATCHING; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 33747062721     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60628-1     Document Type: Article

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