In vivo culture of bovine embryos and quality assessment of in vivo vs. in vitro produced embryos

Veterinarni Medicina

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 149-158

  Havlicek, Vitezslav ^a,b   Lopatarova, M ^a   Cech, S ^a   Dolezel, R ^a   Huber, T ^c   Pavlok, A ^d   Brem, G ^b,e   Besenfelder, U ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

^e Agrobiogen GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cattle; Cryotolerance; Oviduct; Transvaginal endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOSCOPY; FERTILIZATION; FLUSHING; FREEZING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENCE; SUPEROVULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERUS HORN;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 19344367155     PISSN: 03758427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/5608-VETMED     Document Type: Article

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