11381 IUPAC Gold Book - whole embryo culture 10.1351/goldbook.11381 11381 current 1 Technique, used prior to embryo transfer during in vitro fertilization, in which embryos undergoing organogenesis are maintained in formulated medium outside the body. Whole embryo culture is a useful procedure for testing the teratogenic effects of a substance on organogenesis in rodent or chick embryos. in vitro fertilization https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10866 organogenesis https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11048 teratogenic https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11286 PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 821 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-1202) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11381/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11381/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11381/plain Citation: 'whole embryo culture' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11381 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-10T19:23:11+00:00