Temporary exposure of ovine embryos to an advanced uterine environment does not affect fetal weight but alters fetal muscle development

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 321-325

  Maxfield, E K ^a   Sinclair, K D ^b   Dunne, L D ^b   Broadbent, P J ^b   Robinson, J J ^b   Stewart, E ^b   Kyle, D G ^a   Maltin, C A ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DNA CONTENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; LAMB; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FETUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; SHEEP; SUPEROVULATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031928133     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.321     Document Type: Article

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