Aggregating embryonic but not somatic nuclear transfer embryos increases cloning efficiency in cattle

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 268-278

  Misica Turner, Pavla M ^a,b   Oback, Fleur C ^a,b   Eichenlaub, Michael ^a,b   Wells, David N ^a,b   Oback, Björn ^a,b  

^a RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b BASF Plant Science GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Early development; Embryo; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNER CELL MASS; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MALE; MORULA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN FIBROBLAST; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TROPHOBLASTS; WEANING;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 33846883942     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.050922     Document Type: Article

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