Effects of group culture on the development of discarded human embryos and the construction of human embryonic stem cell lines

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1369-1376

  Sun, Bo ^a   Yu, Wenzhu ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Song, Wenyan ^a   Jin, Haixia ^a   Sun, Yingpu ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Group culture; Human discard embryo; Human embryonic stem cell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL LINE; INNER CELL MASS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; STEM CELL LINE; ZYGOTE; CELL LINE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDER CELL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

CULTURE MEDIUM;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CELL LINE; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEEDER CELLS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; YOUNG ADULT; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84918798783     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0308-y     Document Type: Article

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