Chimeric pigs following blastocyst injection of transgenic porcine primordial germ cells

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-254

  Mueller, Sigrid ^a   Prelle, Katja ^b   Rieger, Norman ^b   Petznek, Helga ^a   Lassnig, Caro ^e   Luksch, Uwe ^e   Aigner, Bernhard ^a   Baetscher, Manfred ^c,d   Wolf, Eckhard ^b   Mueller, Mathias ^e   Brem, Gottfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BioTransplant Inc   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Chimera; Immunocytochemistry; Pig; Pluripotency; Primordial germ cells

Indexed keywords

STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHIMERA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FETUS; GENETIC MARKER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPING; MICROMANIPULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIMORDIAL GERM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS, CD15; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; SWINE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION CHIMERA;

EID: 0032824429     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199911)54:3<244::AID-MRD5>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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