Low levels of chimerism in rabbit fetuses produced from preimplantation embryos microinjected with fetal gonadal cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-46

  Moens, André ^a,c   Betteridge, Keith J ^b   Brunet, Adeline ^a   Renard, Jean Paul ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chimera; EG cells; Gonia; Pluripotency; Primordial germ cells; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; FETUS CELL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIMERA; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FETUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MORULA; OVARY; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; GONIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030032878     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199601)43:1<38::AID-MRD5>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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