Effect of morphological properties of transferred embryonic stages on tubal migration: Implications for in vivo culture in the bovine oviduct

Theriogenology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-48

  Wetscher, F ^a   Havlicek, V ^b   Huber, T ^a   Muller M ^a,b   Brem, G ^b,c   Besenfelder, U ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^c Agrobiogen GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cattle; Embryo structure; In vitro production; In vivo culture; Oviduct

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; HYALURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TRANSPLANTATION; UTERINE TUBE; ZYGOTE;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTRUS SYNCHRONIZATION; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HYALURONIC ACID; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ZYGOTE;

BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 20344395638     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2004.10.020     Document Type: Article

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