Mouse zygotes with one diploid pronucleus formed as a result of ICSI can develop normally beyond birth

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 346-353

  Krukowska, Anna ^a   Tarkowski, Andrzej K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bi parental diploid pronucleus; BrdU "labelled" sperm; ICSI; Mouse; Survival to adulthood; Zygote

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATID; DELIVERY; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETUS; HAPLOIDY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; NUCLEOLUS LIKE BODY; OOCYTE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SECONDARY OOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; SURVIVAL; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL NUCLEUS; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MICE; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; ZYGOTE; ZYGOTE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 25444440316     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20344     Document Type: Article

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