Culture of whole mouse embryos at early postimplantation to organogenesis stages: Developmental staging and methods

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 476, Issue C, 2010, Pages 185-203

  Rivera Pérez, Jaime A ^a   Jones, Vanessa ^b   Tam, Patrick P L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental staging; Embryo culture; Mouse embryo; Postimplantation

Indexed keywords

PHENOL; PHOSPHATE; PYRUVATE SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISSECTION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO CULTURE; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GERM LAYER; GESTATIONAL AGE; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE EMBRYO; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 77955373703     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)76011-0     Document Type: Chapter

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