Apoptosis-independent poor morphology of bovine embryos produced by multiple ovulation

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 383-385

  Ikeda, S ^a,b   Prendes, J M ^c   Alonso Montes, C ^b   Rodriguez A ^b   Diez C ^b   Kitagawa, M ^a   Imai, H ^a   Gomez E ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^c Cooperativa de Agricultores de Gijón ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; MORULA; NICK END LABELING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SUPEROVULATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MORULA; SUPEROVULATION;

BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33748801709     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2006.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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