Developmental kinetics of the first cell cycles of bovine in vitro produced embryos in relation to their in vitro viability and sex

Theriogenology

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1285-1299

  Holm, P ^a   Shukri, N N ^a   Vajta, G ^a   Booth, P ^a   Bendixen, C ^a   Callesen, H ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bovine; Cell cycle length; Embryo kinetics; In vitro development; Time lapse recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; KINETICS; MALE; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; KINETICS; MALE; MORULA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0345471491     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(98)00227-1     Document Type: Article

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