Pregnancy by the tubal transfer of embryos developed after injection of round spermatids into oocyte cytoplasm of the cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis)

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1273-1280

  Ogonuki, Narumi ^a,b   Tsuchiya, Hideaki ^a,c   Hirose, Yoshihiro ^a   Okada, Hironori ^a,d   Ogura, Atsuo ^a,b   Sankai, Tadashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cynomolgus monkey; Embryo transfer; Oocyte activation; ROSI; Round spermatid

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; INFERTILITY; MACACA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; PREGNANCY; PRONUCLEUS; SPERMATID; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ANIMALIA; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0038069323     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg212     Document Type: Article

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