Fetal growth and development following temporary exposure of day 3 ovine embryos to an advanced uterine environment

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-269

  Sinclair, K D ^a   Dunne, L D ^a   Maxfield, E K ^b   Maltin, C A ^b   Young, L E ^c   Wilmut, I ^c   Robinson, J J ^a   Broadbent, P J ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asynchronous transfer; Fetal development; Fetal growth; Fetal oversize

Indexed keywords

OVIS; ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; SEX; SHEEP; SUPEROVULATION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PREGNANCY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SHEEP; UTERUS;

EID: 0032321721     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/R98021     Document Type: Article

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