Development of normal mice from oocytes injected with freeze-dried spermatozoa

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 639-641

  Wakayama, Teruhiko ^a,b   Yanagimachi, Ryuzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal husbandry; Development; Fertilization; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FREEZE DRYING; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOZOON;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZE DRYING; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MICE; OOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031829318     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0798-639     Document Type: Article

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