Impact of adding 5.5 mM glucose to SOF medium on the development, metabolism and quality of in vitro produced bovine embryos from the morula to the blastocyst stage

Zygote

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 189-199

  Donnay, I ^a   Feugang, J M ^a   Bernard, S ^a   Marchandise, J ^a   Pampfer, S ^a   Moens, A ^a   Dessy, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glycolytic activity; In vitro production; Inner cell mass; Oxygen uptake; Trophectoderm

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; MORULA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; MORULA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PYRUVIC ACID;

EID: 0036690383     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199402002253     Document Type: Article

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