Nuclear transfer in sheep embryos: The effect of cell-cycle coordination between nucleus and cytoplasm and the use of in vitro matured oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-264

  Liu, Lin ^a,c   Dai, Yanfeng ^b   Moor, Robert M ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

activation; cell cycle; IVM oocytes; nuclear transfer; sheep

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; GROWTH REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CYTOPLASM; DNA REPLICATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MITOTIC INDEX; NOCODAZOLE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030924879     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199707)47:3<255::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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