Production of rabbit chimeric embryos by aggregation of zona-free nuclear transfer blastomeres

Zygote

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-44

  Chrenek, P ^a   Makarevich, A V ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chimera; EGFP; Embryo; Embryonic cells; Nuclear transfer; Rabbit; Somatic cells

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO INDUCTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SOMATIC CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSGENICS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLASTOMERES; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHIMERA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; OOCYTES; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 20444436360     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199405003102     Document Type: Article

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