Ultrastructural changes in goat interspecies and intraspecies reconstructed early embryos

Zygote

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-110

  Tao, Yong ^a   Cheng, Lizi ^a   Zhang, Meiling ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Ding, Jianping ^a   Zhang, Yunhai ^a,b   Fang, Fugui ^a   Zhang, Xiaorong ^a   Maddox Hyttel, Poul ^a,b  

^a ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Embryo; Interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer; Mitochondria; Ultrastructure; Zona

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CATTLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CLONING; CYTOPLASM; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS; GOAT; GOLGI COMPLEX; LYSOSOME; MITOCHONDRION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, ORGANISM; CYTOPLASM; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAP JUNCTIONS; GOATS; GOLGI APPARATUS; LIPIDS; LYSOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; ORGANELLES; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

BOVINAE; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 42149093157     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: 14698730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199407004492     Document Type: Article

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