Ultrastructure of bovine embryos developed from in vitro-matured and- fertilized oocytes: Comparative morphological evaluation of embryos cultured either in serum-free medium or in serum-supplemented medium

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 325-335

  Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamashita, Shoko ^a   Itoh, Takehiro ^a   Satoh, Takeshi ^a   Hoshi, Hiroyoshi ^a  

^a Res Inst for the Funct Peptides   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Embryo culture; Lipid droplet; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELL; HISTOLOGY; INNER CELL MASS; MITOCHONDRION; MORULA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MORULA; OOCYTES; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033041087     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199907)53:3<325::AID-MRD8>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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