Reducing the amount of cytoplasm available for early embryonic development decreases the quality but not quantity of embryos produced by in vitro fertilization and nuclear transplantation

Theriogenology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 243-252

  Westhusin, M E ^a   Collas, P ^b   Marek, D ^b   Sullivan, E ^b   Stepp, P ^a   Pryor, J ^a   Barnes, F ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Genmark Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine; Embryo cloning; Nuclear transplantation; Nuclear cytoplasmic ratio

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION; NUCLEAR TRANSFER; SWINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICROMANIPULATION; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030585788     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0093-691X(96)00181-1     Document Type: Article

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