Culture systems: Mineral oil overlay

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 912, Issue , 2012, Pages 325-331

  Morbeck, Dean E ^a   Leonard, Phoebe H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Mineral oil; Paraffin; Peroxides

Indexed keywords

MINERAL OIL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO CULTURE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; METHODOLOGY;

CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MINERAL OIL;

EID: 84864837575     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-971-6_18     Document Type: Article

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