Supplementation effect of early pregnancy factor-positive serum into bovine in vitro fertilization culture medium

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 356-361

  Ito, Kazuei ^a   Takahashi, Masahiro ^b   Kawahata, Kyoko ^c   Goto, Taichi ^c   Takahashi, Jutaro ^a   Yasuda, Yasuhisa ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Livestock Improvement Association of Japan   (Japan)

^c Shizukuishi Iwate Gun   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early pregnancy factor; IVF; Pregnancy; Rosette inhibition test

Indexed keywords

EARLY PREGNANCY FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031806433     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.1998.tb00369.x     Document Type: Article

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