Orientation of mitotic spindles during the 8- to 16-cell stage transition in mouse embryos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Dard, Nicolas ^a,b   Louvet Vallée, Sophie ^a,b   Maro, Bernard ^c,d  

^a Université René Descartes   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAUGHTER CELL; EMBRYO; METAPHASE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949501522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008171     Document Type: Article

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