Cell arrest and cell death in mammalian preimplantation development: Lessons from the bovine model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Leidenfrost, Sandra ^a   Boelhauve, Marc ^a,c   Reichenbach, Myriam ^a   Güngör, Tuna ^a   Reichenbach, Horst Dieter ^b   Sinowatz, Fred ^a   Wolf, Eckhard ^a   Habermann, Felix A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture   (Germany)

^c SOUTH WESTPHALIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; FAS ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DOSAGE; HEIFER; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MAMMALS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; OOCYTES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 79960651564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022121     Document Type: Article

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