Use of fetuin before and during vitrification of bovine oocytes

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-338

  Horvath, G ^a,b   Seidel Jr , G E ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS BLOOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; OOCYTES; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; TIME FACTORS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 43249120361     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00905.x     Document Type: Article

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