Following the course of pre-implantation embryo patterning by non-linear microscopy

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 379-386

  Kyvelidou, Christiana ^a,b   Tserevelakis, George J ^a,b   Filippidis, George ^b   Ranella, Anthi ^b   Kleovoulou, Anastasia ^a,b   Fotakis, Costas ^a,b   Athanassakis, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Non linear microscopy; Pre implantation embryo imaging; Pre implantation embryo patterning

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO POLARITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MITOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; BODY PATTERNING; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; POLAR BODIES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 80455160207     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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