Improved development of in vitro-derived bovine embryos by use of a nitric oxide scavenger in a cumulus-granulosa cell coculture system

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-53

  Lim, J M ^a,b   Hansel, W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHA Infertility Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bovine; Coculture; Embryo development; Hemoglobin; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SCAVENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELL; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELLS; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031958667     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199805)50:1<45::AID-MRD6>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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