Establishment of pregnancy after the transfer of nuclear transfer embryos produced from the fusion of argali (ovis ammori) nuclei into domestic sheep (ovis aries) enucleated oocytes

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-54

  White, Kenneth L ^a   Bunch, Thomas D ^a,b   Mitalipov, Shoukhrat ^a,b   Reed, William A ^a,b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BREEDING; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 0002214651     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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