Effect of superovulation induction on embryonic development on day 5 and subsequent development and survival after nonsurgical embryo transfer in pigs

Theriogenology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1063-1070

  Hazeleger, W ^a   Bouwman, E G ^a   Noordhuizen, J P T M ^a   Kemp, B ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Nonsurgical embryo transfer; Superovulation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; SERIC GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; COW; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SUPEROVULATION; SWINE;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS, EQUINE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; SUPEROVULATION; SWINE;

EID: 0034653627     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(00)00252-1     Document Type: Article

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