Developmental competence of juvenile calf oocytes in vitro and in vivo: Influence of donor animal variation and repeated gonadotropin stimulation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 206-213

  Taneja, Maneesh ^a   Bols, Peter E J ^a   Van De Velde, Anneleen ^a   Ju, Jyh Cherng ^a   Schreiber, David ^a   Tripp, Mark William ^a   Levine, Howard ^a   Echelard, Yann ^b   Riesen, John ^a   Yang, Xiangzhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b Genzyme Transgenics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 19244373493     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod62.1.206     Document Type: Article

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