Aggregation of bovine cloned embryos at the four-cell stage stimulated gene expression and in vitro embryo development

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1281-1289

  Zhou, Wenli ^a   Xiang, Tianhao ^a   Walker, Shawn ^a   Abruzzese, Ronald V ^a   Hwang, Earl ^a   Farrar, Vicki ^a   Findeisen, Brian ^a   Sadeghieh, Sanaz ^a   Arenivas, Fernando ^a   Chen, Shu Hung ^a   Polejaeva, Irina ^a  

^a Viagen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation of bovine embryos; Gene expression; Somatic cell nuclear transfer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BLASTOCYST; CAV1 GENE; CD81 GENE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLU5 GENE; HNFA GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TDGF1 GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL AGGREGATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 46049089220     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20875     Document Type: Article

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