Bovine embryo culture in the presence or absence of serum: Implications for blastocyst development, cryotolerance, and messenger RNA expression

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 236-243

  Rizos, D ^a   Gutierrez Adan A ^b   Perez Garnelo S ^b   De la Fuente, J ^b   Boland, M P ^a   Lonergan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early development; Embryo; Female reproductive tract; Gene regulation; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CONNEXIN 31; CONNEXIN 43; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR RECEPTOR; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BAX; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAU INTERFERON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL KINETICS; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; FETAL CALF SERUM; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVIDUCT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERFERON TYPE I; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR RECEPTOR ALPHA SUBUNIT; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, CYTOKINE; RECEPTORS, OSM-LIF; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

BOVINAE;

EID: 0037232803     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.007799     Document Type: Article

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