Development of parthenogenetic and cloned ovine embryos: Effect of activation protocols

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1177-1187

  Loi, P ^a   Ledda, S ^b   Fulka Jr , J ^c   Cappai, P ^a   Moor, R M ^d  

^a Istituto Zootecnico e Caseario Per la Sardegna   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Biologia Animale   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

^d BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; ALCOHOL; IONOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ADENINE; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONE CELLS; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; OOCYTES; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; SHEEP; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

ANIMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031980109     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.5.1177     Document Type: Article

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