Increased production of mouse embryos in in vitro fertilization by preincubating sperm cells with the nuclease inhibitor aurintricarboxylic acid

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1549-1553

  Zaccagnini, Germana ^a   Maione, Barbara ^a   Lorenzini, Rodolfo ^b   Spadafora, Corrado ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURINTRICARBOXYLIC ACID; NUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL FUNCTION; DNA DETERMINATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031793886     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.6.1549     Document Type: Article

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