In vitro and in vivo development of mice morulae after storage in non-frozen conditions

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  de Dios Hourcade, Juan ^a   Pérez Crespo, Miriam ^a   Serrano, Alfredo ^b   Gutiérrez Adán, Alfonso ^a   Pintado, Belén ^b  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embryo; Mouse; Storage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MORULA; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; RETROPOSON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FREEZING; MICE; MORULA; PREGNANCY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

MUS;

EID: 84870691549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-10-62     Document Type: Article

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