Production of chimeras by aggregation of embryonic stem cells with diploid or tetraploid mouse embryos

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1145-1153

  Eakin, Guy S ^a   Hadjantonakis, Anna Katerina ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENETICS; MORULA; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MORULA;

EID: 34347258921     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.173     Document Type: Article

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