A low molecular weight extract of bovine serum albumin stimulates rabbit blastocyst cell division and expansion in vitro
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Reproduction
- Vol. 73 (1) , 147-150
- https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0730147
Abstract
Fraction V bovine serum albumin (BSA) was dissolved in 5% formic acid and filtered through a molecular filter with a cutoff of MW 10,000. The freeze-dried filtrate stimulated increased cell division of cultured rabbit morulae to blastocysts (up to 8-fold increase in cell number) and increased blastocyst expansion (> 2-fold). Some samples of commercial BSA evidently contain an embryonic growth factor of a low MW.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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