Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributing authors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Overview of early human preimplantation; 2 Metabolic requirements during preimplantation; 3 Human morulae in vitro; 4 Cell allocation and differentiation; 5 Human blastocysts in vitro; 6 Preembryo selection and blastocyst quality:; 7 Blastocyst hatching; 8 Blastocyst cryopreservation and thawing; 9 Cell death (apoptosis) in human blastocysts; 10 Human implantation; 11 Human embryonic stem cells; 12 The mammalian blastocyst as an experimental model
Summary
Vividly illustrates the typical and atypical morphology of mammalian blastocysts and demonstrates that extended culture of blastocysts is now achieveable in the laboratory
