Embryonic diapause in humans: time to consider?
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Embryonic diapause in humans: time to consider?
BACKGROUND When a competent blastocyst stage embryo finds itself in an unreceptive uterus, it delays development. In around one hundred species representing various orders, this delay is known to be reversible, but this phenomenon - termed embryonic diapause (ED) - is not considered a general characteristic of all mammals. PRESENTATION OF THE HYPOTHESIS Recently, however, we demonstrated that...
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عنوان ژورنال: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1477-7827
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-11-92