Autocrine embryotropins revisited: how do embryos communicate with each other in vitro when cultured in groups?

Biological Reviews

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 505-520

  Wydooghe, Eline ^a   Vandaele, Leen ^b   Heras, Sonia ^a   De Sutter, Petra ^c   Deforce, Dieter ^a   Peelman, Luc ^a   De Schauwer, Catharina ^a   Van Soom, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

autocrine factors; exosome; group culture; growth factors; in vitro fertilization; inter embryo communication; paracrine factors; preimplantation embryo; survival factors

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE;

ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; CELL COMMUNICATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL COMMUNICATION; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES;

EID: 84949524195     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12241     Document Type: Article

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