Production of live piglets following cryopreservation of embryos derived from in vitro-matured oocytes

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 900-905

  Nagashima, Hiroshi ^a   Hiruma, Katsumi ^a   Saito, Hitoshi ^a   Tomii, Ryo ^a   Ueno, Satoshi ^a   Nakayama, Naoki ^a   Matsunari, Hitomi ^a   Kurome, Mayuko ^a  

^a MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Embryo; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICROMANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; LIPIDS; MALE; OOCYTES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; SWINE; TISSUE FIXATION;

SUS;

EID: 34247463761     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.052779     Document Type: Article

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