Frozen sperm as an alternative to shipping live mice

Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 8-11

  Awasthi, P Roackie ^a   French, Carla F ^b   Sztein, Jorge ^a,c   Bedigian, Rick ^a   Sharp, John J ^a,d   Lloyd, K C Kent ^a  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECONOMICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SAFETY; SHIPPING; SPERM PRESERVATION; WEANING;

ANIMAL USE ALTERNATIVES; ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPERMATOZOA; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0141672028     PISSN: 10600558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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