Sperm and oocyte treatments to improve the formation of male and female pronuclei and subsequent development following intracytoplasmic sperm injection into bovine oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 918-924

  Rho, Gyu Jin ^a   Kawarsky, Sheldon ^a   Johnson, Walter H ^a   Kochhar, Kanwal ^a   Betteridge, Keith J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; DITHIOTHREITOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SPERM;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOPLASM; DITHIOTHREITOL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IONOMYCIN; IONOPHORES; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OOCYTES; PLOIDIES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; SULFHYDRYL REAGENTS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 0031715023     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.4.918     Document Type: Article

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