Numerical calculations for diffusion effects in the well-of-the-well culture system for mammalian embryos

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 742-751

  Matsuura, Koji ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autocrine effect; In vitro embryo culture

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CULTURE MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; BLASTOCYST; BLUE LIGHT; BODILY SECRETIONS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PORCINE EMBRYO; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN SECRETION; PUBLICATION; STEADY STATE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; WELL OF THE WELL CULTURE SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BOVINAE; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84903193985     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD13025     Document Type: Article

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