Media composition: Growth factors

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 912, Issue , 2012, Pages 177-198

  Hegde, Aparna ^a   Behr, Barry ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coculture; Embryo culture; Growth factor receptors; Growth factors

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO CULTURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84864858800     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-971-6_11     Document Type: Article

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