Production of a healthy calf by somatic cell nuclear transfer without micromanipulators and carbon dioxide incubators using the Handmade Cloning (HMC) and the Submarine Incubation System (SIS)

Theriogenology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1465-1472

  Vajta, Gábor ^a   Bartels, Paul ^b   Joubert, Jennifer ^b   De La Rey, Morné ^c   Treadwell, Robert ^c   Callesen, Henrik ^a  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b Wildlife Biological Resource Centre   (South Africa)

^c Embryo Plus   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bovine; Endangered species; Fibroblast; WOW; Zona free

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; INCUBATOR; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATTLE; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; INCUBATORS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 4644296484     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2004.02.010     Document Type: Article

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