"Proceedings of the Symposium on Preimplantation Embryo Development, sponsored by Serono Symposia, USA, held August 15 to 18, 1991, in Newton, Massachusetts"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Development of the oocyte -- Nuclear and cytoplasmic changes during oocyte maturation / David F. Albertini ... [et al.] -- Follicular control of meiotic maturation in mammalian oocytes / Catherine Racowsky -- Translation control in oocytes: a critical role for the poly(A) tail of maternal mRNAs / Marcia L. O'Connell ... [et al.] -- Establishment of competence for preimplantation embryogenesis during oogenesis in mice / John J. Eppig -- Epigenetic control of embryo development -- Regulation of hamster embryo development in vitro by amino acids / Barry D. Bavister and Susan H. McKiernan -- Energy metabolism in preimplantation development / Henry J. Leese -- Growth factors as regulators of mammalian preimplantation embryo development / Bernd Fischer -- Intracellular pH regulation by the preimplantation embryo / Jay M. Baltz, John D. Biggers and Claude Lechene -- Genetics of embryo development -- Activation of the embryonic genome: comparisons between mouse and bovine development / Andrew J. Watson ... [et al.]
(cont) Mutations affecting early development in the mouse / Terry Magnuson, Shyam K. Sharan and Bernadette Holdener-Kenny -- Parental imprinting in mammalian development / Anne C. Ferguson-Smith and M. Azim Surani -- Developmental potential of mouse embryonic stem cells / Janet Rossant ... [et al.] -- Differentiation of the embryo -- Blastocyst development and growth: role of inositol and citrate / M.T. Kane and M.M. Fahy -- Development of human blastocysts in vitro / Kate Hardy -- Development of Na/K ATPase activity and blastocoel formation / Catherine S. Gardiner and Alfred R. Menino, Jr. -- Effects of imprinting on early development of mouse embryos / R.A. Pedersen ... [et al.] -- Embryo-maternal interactions -- Uterine secretory activity and embryo development / R. Michael Roberts ... [et al.] -- In vitro models for implantation of the mammalian embryo / S.J. Kimber, R. Waterhouse and S. Lindenberg -- Chemical signals in embryo-maternal dialogue: role of growth factors / S.K. Dey and B.C. Paria
(cont) Regulation of chorionic gonadotropin secretion by cultured human blastocysts / Alexander Lopata and Karen Oliva