Possible therapy of male infertility by reproductive cloning: One cloned human 4-cell embryo

Archives of Andrology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 243-254

  Zavos, P M ^a   Illmensee, K ^b  

^a Andrology Institute of America   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Embryo cloning; Human somatic cell nuclear transfer; Interspecies bovine bioassay; Male infertility; Micro PCR; SCNT

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SOMATIC CELL; ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OLIGOSPERMIA; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN;

EID: 33746917192     PISSN: 01485016     EISSN: 15210375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01485010500503637     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Benagiano G, Farris M (2003): Public health policy and infertility. Reprod BioMed Online 6:606-614.
2. Bourc'his D, Le Bourhis D, et al. (2001): Delayed and incomplete reprogramming of chromosome methylation patterns in bovine cloned embryos. Curr Biol 11:1542-1546.
3. Chang KH, Lim JM, et al. (2003): Blastocyst formation, karyotype, and mitochondrial DNA of interspecies embryos derived from nuclear transfer of human cord fibroblasts into enucleated bovine oocytes. Fertil Steril 80:1380-1387.
4. Chen Y, He ZX, et al. (2003): Embryonic stem cells generated by nuclear transfer of human somatic nuclei into rabbit oocytes. Cell Res Online 13:251-264.
5. Dominko T, Mitalipova M, et al. (1999): Bovine oocyte cytoplasm supports development of embryos produced by nuclear transfer of somatic cell nuclei from various mammalian species. Biol Reprod 60:1496-1502.
6. Edwards RG (2003): Human reproductive cloning a step nearer. Reprod BioMed Online 6:399-400.
7. Fackelmann KA (1994): Cloning human embryos. Science News 145:92-93.
8. Hall JL, Engel D, et al. (1993): Experimental cloning of human polypoid embryos using an artificial zona pellucida. American Fertility Society with Canadian Fertility Andrology Society: ASRM abstracts S1.
9. Hwang WS, Ryu YJ, et al. (2004): Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst. Science 303:1669-1674.
10. Hwang WS, Roh SI, et al. (2005): Patient-specific embryonic stem cells derived from human SCNT blastocysts. Science 308:1777-83.
11. Illmensee K (2001): Cloning and risk factors. J Assist Reprod Genet 18:477.
12. Illmensee K (2001): Cloning in reproductive medicine. J Assist Reprod Genet 18:451-467.
13. Illmensee K (2005): Therapeutic cloning in reproductive medicine. Proc 12th World Cong on Human Reprod Venice, Italy 1:832-836.
14. Illmensee K, Levanduski M, Zavos PM (2005): Development of embryo interspecies bioassay using the bovine oocyte model to evaluate the embryonic capacities of human adult somatic cells. Fertil Steril 85:1248-1260.
15. Jones HW, Edward RG, Seidel GE (1993): On attempts at cloning in the human. Fertil Steril 61:423-426.
16. Kato Y, Tani T, Tsunoda Y (2000): Cloning of calves from various somatic cell types of male and female adult, newborn and fetal cows. J Reprod Fertil 120:231-237.
17. Kubota C, Yamakuchi H, et al. (2000): Six cloned calves produced from adult fibroblast cells after long term culture. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:990-995.
18. Lanza RP, Cibelli JB, West MD (1999): Prospects for the use of nuclear transfer in human transplantation. Nature Biotech 17:1171-1174.
19. Santos F, Dean W (2004): Epigenetic reprogramming during early development in mammals. Reproduction 127:643-651.
20. St. John JC, Lloyd REI, et al. (2004): The consequences of nuclear transfer for mammalian development and offspring survival. A mitochondrial DNA perspective. Reproduction 127:631-641.
21. Takeda K, Akagi S, et al. (2003): Proliferation of donor mitochondrial DNA in nuclear transfer calves (Bos taurus) derived from cumulus cells. Mol Reprod Develop 64:429-437.
22. Wade PA, Kikyo N (2002): Chromatin remodelling in nuclear cloning. Eur J Biochem 269:2284-2287.
23. Wilmut I, Schnieke AE, et al. (1997): Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells. Nature 385:810-813.
24. Zakhartchenko V, Durcova Hills G, et al. (1999): Effects of serum starvation and recloning on the efficiency of nuclear transfer using bovine fetal fibroblasts. J Reprod Fertil 115:325-331.
25. Zavos PM (2003): Human reproductive cloning: the time is near. Reprod BioMed Online 6:397-399.
26. Zavos PM, Illmensee K (2003): Development of bioassays using the bovine model to measure the efficiency of SCNT in humans. Fertil Steril 80 (Suppl 3):19-20.
27. Zhang Y, Li Y (1998): Nuclear cytoplasmic interaction and development of goat embryos reconstructed by nuclear transplantation: production of goats by serially cloning embryos. Biol Reprod 58:266-269.