| Literature DB >> 26585195 |
Gerald Cunha1, Maya Overland2, Yi Li2, Mei Cao2, Joel Shen2, Adriane Sinclair2, Laurence Baskin2.
Abstract
This review details methods for utilizing D & C suction abortus specimens as a source of human fetal organs to study the morphogenetic and molecular mechanisms of human fetal organ development. By this means it is possible to design experiments elucidating the molecular mechanisms of human fetal organ development and to compare and contrast human developmental mechanisms with that of laboratory animals. Finally human fetal organs can be grown in vivo as grafts to athymic mice, thus allowing ethical analysis of potential adverse effects of environmental toxicants.Entities:
Keywords: Human development; Internal genitalia; Male and female external genitalia
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26585195 PMCID: PMC4866906 DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2015.10.005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Differentiation ISSN: 0301-4681 Impact factor: 3.880