Full-term development of hamster embryos produced by injection of round spermatids into oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 194-198

  Haigo, Kosuke ^a   Yamauchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Yazama, Futoshi ^a   Yanagimachi, Ryuzo ^b   Horiuchi, Toshitaka ^a  

^a PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Early development; Embryo; Fertilization; Spermatid

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HAMSTER; MALE; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SHAPE; CRICETINAE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATIDS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS;

EID: 3142733564     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.027706     Document Type: Article

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