Practical considerations for the in vitro production of pig embryos

Theriogenology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-32

  Prather, R S ^a   Day, B N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Embryo development; In vitro produced; Pig embryo

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SWINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BLASTOCYST; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031895329     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(97)00399-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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