Non-viable human embryos as a source of viable cells for embryonic stem cell derivation

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 301-308

  Gavrilov, Svetlana ^a   Prosser, Robert W ^a   Khalid, Imran ^a   MacDonald, Joanne ^a   Sauer, Mark V ^a   Landry, Donald W ^a   Papaioannou, Virginia E ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ES cell derivation; HESC; Human embryonic stem cells; Non viable human embryos

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL VIABILITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION;

EID: 60549116144     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60270-2     Document Type: Article

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