Effects of culturing bovine oocytes either singly or in groups on development to blastocysts

Theriogenology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 161-169

  O'Doherty, E M ^a   Wade, M G ^a   Hill, J L ^a   Boland, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Co culture; Group oocyte culture; IVF; Monolayer; Single oocyte culture

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0031177885     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(97)00200-8     Document Type: Article

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