Erratum to: Designing 3-Dimensional In Vitro Oviduct Culture Systems to Study Mammalian Fertilization and Embryo Production (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, (2017), 45, 7, (1731-1744), 10.1007/s10439-016-1760-x);Designing 3-Dimensional In Vitro Oviduct Culture Systems to Study Mammalian Fertilization and Embryo Production

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1731-1744

  Ferraz, Marcia A M M ^a   Henning, Heiko H W ^a   Stout, Tom A E ^a   Vos, Peter L A M ^a   Gadella, Bart M ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 D culture; Bio engineering; Embryo development; Fallopian tube; Microfluidics; Polarized epithelium

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELL CULTURE; MICROFLUIDICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE; TISSUE CULTURE;

3-D CULTURE SYSTEM; 3-D CULTURES; DIFFERENTIATED CELLS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FALLOPIAN TUBE; POLARIZED EPITHELIUM; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

MAMMALS;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LOSS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; GAMETE; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FALLOPIAN TUBE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84995377869     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-016-1767-3     Document Type: Erratum

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