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Carnegie Stage   Figure

Contact area between the embryo and the endometrial cell culture

Contact area between the embryo and the endometrial cell culture

Very high power SEM of the contact area of a stage 4 embryo in vitro. Measuring bar =15 µm. E, endometrial epithelial cell; T, trophoblast cell. several endometrial pinopodes (P) are in contact with the trophoblast surface of the blastocyst.

From: Bentin-Ley et al., 1999. Reproduced with permission of the publisher, Oxford University Press.


Keywords: blastocyst(s), endometrial epithelial cell, pinopode, stage 4 embryo, trophoblast, trophoblast cells


Source: The Virtual Human Embryo.