Heterotopic transplantation of testes in newly hatched chickens and subsequent production of offspring via intramagnal insemination

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 598-603

  Song, Yonghong ^a   Silversides, Frederick ^a,b  

^a AGASSIZ RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b Agassiz Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Sperm; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CASTRATION; CHICK; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OVARY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHICKENS; FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OVIPARITY; TESTIS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33947538933     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.058032     Document Type: Article

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