Presence of epidermal growth factor during in vitro maturation of pig oocytes and embryo culture can modulate blastocyst development after in vitro fertilization

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-401

  Abeydeera, Lalantha R ^a   Wang, Wei Hua ^a   Cantley, Thomas C ^a   Rieke, August ^a   Prather, Randall S ^a   Day, Billy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

EGF; Embryo development; In vitro maturation; Pig oocytes

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; KINETICS; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; SWINE;

EID: 0031735867     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199812)51:4<395::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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