Effects of In Vitro Production on Horse Embryo Morphology, Cytoskeletal Characteristics, and Blastocyst Capsule Formation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1895-1906

  Tremoleda, Jordi L ^a   Stout, Tom A E ^a   Lagutina, Irina ^b   Lazzari, Giovanna ^b   Bevers, Mart M ^a   Colenbrander, Ben ^a   Galli, Cesare ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratorio di Tecnologie della Riproduzione   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Early development; Gamete biology

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY OC 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORSE; INNER CELL MASS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROFILAMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; EGG PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HORSES; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROFILAMENTS; OOCYTES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0345601196     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.018515     Document Type: Article

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