Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 358-364 , March 2010

Improved development of mouse and human embryos using a tilting embryo culture system

  • Koji Matsuura

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
    • Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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  • Nobuyoshi Hayashi

      Affiliations

    • Okayama Couples Clinic, Okayama, Japan
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  • Yuka Kuroda

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
    • Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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  • Chisato Takiue

      Affiliations

    • Okayama Couples Clinic, Okayama, Japan
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  • Rei Hirata

      Affiliations

    • Okayama Couples Clinic, Okayama, Japan
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  • Mami Takenami

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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  • Yoko Aoi

      Affiliations

    • Okayama Couples Clinic, Okayama, Japan
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  • Nanako Yoshioka

      Affiliations

    • Okayama Couples Clinic, Okayama, Japan
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  • Toshihiro Habara

      Affiliations

    • Okayama Couples Clinic, Okayama, Japan
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  • Tetsunori Mukaida

      Affiliations

    • Hiroshima HART Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan
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  • Keiji Naruse

      Affiliations

    • Cardiovascular Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 16 May 2009 ,Revised 8 June 2009 ,Accepted 11 November 2009.

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 Dr Keiji Naruse graduated from Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1988 (MD) and received his PhD in medicine from Nagoya University in 1992. He was an associate professor at Nagoya University from 1999 to 2005 and is currently a chairman and professor of Cardiovascular Physiology at Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School from 1998 to 2001. He has been working in the fields of mechanobiology of circulation, reproduction, and sensory systems.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00272-7

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.002

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