Poor quality of oocytes from Xenopus laevis used in laboratory experiments: Prevention by use of antiseptic surgical technique and antibiotic supplementation

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 206-211

  Elsner, Holger Andreas ^a,b   Hönck, Hans Hinrich ^b   Willmann, Frank ^b   Kreienkamp, Hans Jürgen ^b   Iglauer, Franz ^b,c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; ANTISEPSIS; ASEPSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENTAMICINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OOCYTES; OVARIECTOMY; PENICILLIN G; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SKIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SURGERY; TETRACYCLINE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0343729363     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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