Improvement in bovine embryo production in vitro by glutathione-containing culture media

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 437-443

  Luvoni, Gaia C ^a,b   Keskintepe, Levent ^a   Brackett, Benjamin G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bovine embryos; Development; Glutathione; In vitro; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; GLUTATHIONE; OOCYTES; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 0029962383     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199604)43:4<437::AID-MRD5>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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