Gene expression analysis of a new source of human oocytes and embryos for research and human embryonic stem cell derivation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1410-1415

  Sneddon, Sharon F ^a   Desousa, Paul A ^b,c   Arnesen, Ruth E ^a   Lieberman, Brian A ^a,d   Kimber, Susan J ^e   Brison, Daniel R ^a,e  

^a MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Roslin Cells Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d Bridgewater Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blastocyst; embryonic stem cells; ethics; gene expression; IVF; parthenogenetic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHASE; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERM; SPERM DONOR;

COHORT STUDIES; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 79952448619     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.08.050     Document Type: Article

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