Assessment of the long-term and transgenerational consequences of perturbing preimplantation embryo development in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 889-896

  Mahsoudi, B ^a   Li, A ^a   O'Neill, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Embryo transfer; Environment; Epigenetics; In vitro fertilization; Toxicity testing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HYPOPHYSIS; KIDNEY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID WEIGHT; TOXICITY TESTING; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; TOXICITY TESTS, CHRONIC; ZYGOTE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 35548943911     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.057885     Document Type: Article

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