Offspring from Mouse Embryos Developed Using a Simple Incubator-Free Culture System with a Deoxidizing Agent

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Itoi, Fumiaki ^a,b   Tokoro, Mikiko ^a,b   Terashita, Yukari ^a,c   Yamagata, Kazuo ^d   Fukunaga, Noritaka ^b   Asada, Yoshimasa ^b   Wakayama, Teruhiko ^a,e  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b The Asada Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; OXYGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL MATURATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRID; INBRED STRAIN; INCUBATOR; MALE; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; WARMING; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INCUBATORS; MALE; MICE; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84867295593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047512     Document Type: Article

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