Blastomere removal from cleavage-stage mouse embryos alters steroid metabolism during pregnancy

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-

  Sugawara, Atsushi ^a   Sato, Brittany ^a   Bal, Elise ^a   Collier, Abby C ^a   Ward, Monika A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction technologies; Embryo; In vitro fertilization; Placenta; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; AROMATASE; CYTOCHROME P450 17; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROGESTERONE; SULFOTRANSFERASE; STEROID; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOCYTE; BLASTOMA; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME METABOLISM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS LIVER; GENETIC SCREENING; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MOTHER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVIDUCT; PLACENTA; PLACENTA WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID METABOLISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL SEPARATION; CYTOLOGY; DBA MOUSE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOMERES; CELL SEPARATION; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MODELS, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDS;

EID: 84869229502     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.097444     Document Type: Article

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