In vitro blastocyst development from serially split mouse embryos and future implications for human assisted reproductive technologies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2006, Pages 1112-1120

  Illmensee, Karl ^a,b   Kaskar, Khalied ^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

Blastomere biopsy; culture in vitro; mouse preimplantation; multiple embryo splitting

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; BLASTOMERE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; IN VIVO CULTURE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MITOSIS INDEX; MITOSIS RATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSURGERY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 33748892163     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.02.103     Document Type: Article

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