Continuous observation of rabbit preimplantation embryos in vitro by using a culture device connected to a microscope

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-56

  Sultana, Fowzia ^a   Hatori, Masanori ^a,b   Shimozawa, Nobuhiro ^a   Ebisawa, Takashi ^c   Sankai, Tadashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Taiei Denki Company   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSCOPE; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; MICROSCOPY; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 61349167112     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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