Handmade somatic cell cloning in cattle: Analysis of factors contributing to high efficiency in vitro

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 571-578

  Vajta, Gábor ^a   Lewis, Ian M ^b,c   Trounson, Alan O ^b   Purup, Stig ^a   Maddox Hyttel, Poul ^d   Schmidt, Mette ^d   Pedersen, Hanne Gervi ^d   Greve, Torben ^d   Callesen, Henrik ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Genetics Australia   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Embryo

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL CLONE; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INNER CELL MASS; MITOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOMATIC CELL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; BLOOD PHYSIOLOGY; CATTLE; CLONING, ORGANISM; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MICROMANIPULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOGENS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0037306849     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.008771     Document Type: Article

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