Media composition: Salts and osmolality

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 912, Issue , 2012, Pages 61-80

  Baltz, Jay M ^a  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Culture; Embryo; Ions; Media; Osmolality; Osmolarity; Osmolyte; Preimplantation; Salts

Indexed keywords

INORGANIC SALT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO CULTURE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OSMOLARITY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; HUMANS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SALTS;

EID: 84864856584     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-971-6_5     Document Type: Article

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