Survival and ultrastructure of gene-microinjected rabbit embryos after vitrification

Zygote

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 283-293

  Popelkova M ^a   Chrenek, P ^b   Pivko, J ^b   Makarevich, A V ^b   Kubovicova E ^b   Kacmarik J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Gene microinjection; OPS vitrification; Rabbit morulae; Ultrastructural morphometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE; GENE TRANSFER; MICROINJECTION; MORULA; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RABBIT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MORULA; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 29744448146     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: 14698730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S096719940500331X     Document Type: Article

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