Effect of glucose concentration during in vitro culture of mouse embryos on development to blastocyst, success of embryo transfer, and litter sex ratio

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 329-336

  Bermejo Alvarez, P ^a   Roberts, R M ^a   Rosenfeld, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MALE; MICE; PREGNANCY; SEX RATIO; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84859876847     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.22028     Document Type: Article

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