Development of sheep androgenetic embryos is boosted following transfer of male pronuclei into androgenetic hemizygotes

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 374-381

  Matsukawa, Kazutsugu ^a,c   Turco, Margherita Yayoi ^a   Scapolo, Pier Augusto ^a   Reynolds, Lawrence ^b   Ptak, Grazyna ^a   Loi, Pasqualino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b Department of Finance   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN;

ANDROGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; ELECTROFUSION (CELL); EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HAPLOIDY; HEMIZYGOTE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MORULA; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; TRIPLOIDY; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); GENOME IMPRINTING; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; DIPLOIDY; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HAPLOIDY; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 41049083918     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2006.0016     Document Type: Article

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