Kyoto Collection

Introduction

Kyoto Embryos

(Kyoto University, Japan)

• Begun by Dr. Hideo Nishimura in 1961 and has over 44,000 human embryo specimens.
• Developed and curated by Kohei Shiota.
• Currently curated by Shigehito Yamada.

| Kyoto Homepage

Sample Publications

• Polydactyly in human embryos
  • 129 embryos with polydactyly in 36,380 human conceptuses obtained through induced abortion during the period from 1962 to 1974.
• Human embryo imaging with a super-parallel magnetic resonance (MR) microscope

Sample Embryos

Image source: The Kyoto Collection images are reproduced with the permission of Prof. Kohei Shiota and Prof. Shigehito Yamada, Anatomy and Developmental Biology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan for educational purposes only and cannot be reproduced electronically or in writing without permission.

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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, May 19) Embryology Kyoto Collection. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Kyoto_Collection

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