Effect of holding technique and culture drop size in individual or group culture on blastocyst development after ICSI of equine oocytes with low meiotic competence

Animal Reproduction Science

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 38-47

  Choi, Y H ^a   Love, L B ^a   Varner, D D ^a   Hinrichs, K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Embryo; Horse (intracytoplasmic sperm injection); Oocyte; Roscovitine

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; PURINE DERIVATIVE; ROSCOVITINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HORSE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HORSES; MEIOSIS; OOCYTES; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PURINES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34548284399     PISSN: 03784320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2006.09.028     Document Type: Article

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