Telomere lengths in cloned transgenic pigs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1589-1593

  Jiang, Le ^a   Carter, D Bart ^b   Xu, Jie ^a   Yang, Xiangzhong ^a   Prather, Randall S ^b   Tian, X Cindy ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CATTLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SWINE; TELOMERE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CLONING, ORGANISM; DNA; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SUS SCROFA; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 2642547371     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.022616     Document Type: Article

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