Development to the blastocyst stage of porcine somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos reconstructed by the fusion of cumulus cells and cytoplasts prepared by gradient centrifugation

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 216-228

  Fahrudin, Mokhamad ^a,c   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Karja, Ni Wayan Kurniani ^a,b,d   Ozawa, Manabu ^a   Maedomari, Naoki ^a,e   Somfai, Tamás ^a   Ohnuma, Katsuhiko ^a   Noguchi, Junko ^a   Kaneko, Hiroyuki ^a   Nagai, Takashi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^e AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL FUSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREMATURE CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SWINE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; SUS SCROFA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 34347395967     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2006.0048     Document Type: Article

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