Assisted fertilization and embryonic axis formation in higher primates

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 382-390

  Piotrowska Nitsche, Karolina ^a,b   Yang, Shang Hsun ^a,c   Banta, Heather ^a   Chan, Anthony W S ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ICSI; Non human primates; Patterning; Sperm entry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO AXIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIMATE; RHESUS MONKEY; SPERMATOZOON;

EID: 63249132894     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60097-1     Document Type: Article

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