Ultrastructural analysis reveals striking differences of intercellular contact lengths in bovine embryos produced in vivo, in vitro and by somatic cell nuclear transfer

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 775-784

  Bhojwani, S ^a   Tomek, W ^a   Jonas, L ^b   Becker, F ^a   Alm, H ^a   Torner, H ^a   Kanitz, W ^a   Poehland, R ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pre implantation bovine embryos; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL CLONING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VIVO CULTURE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVIDUCT; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLONING, ORGANISM; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; ORGANELLES; PREGNANCY;

BOVINAE;

EID: 34247627821     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20668     Document Type: Article

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