Refinement of a morphological scoring system for postimplantation rabbit conceptuses

Birth Defects Research Part B - Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-222

  Carney, Edward W ^a,d   Tornesi, Belen ^a   Keller, Charles ^b   Findlay, Heather A ^c   Nowland, William S ^c   Marshall, Valerie A ^a   Ozolinš, Terence R S ^c  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d 1803 Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative development; Embryo; Morphology; Whole embryo culture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCORING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RABBITS; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34447252338     PISSN: 15429733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrb.20118     Document Type: Article

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