Development and validation of a highly efficient protocol of porcine somatic cloning using preovulatory embryo transfer in peripubertal gilts

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 355-362

  Petersen, Björn ^a   Lucas Hahn, Andrea ^a   Oropeza, Marianne ^a   Hornen, Nadine ^a   Lemme, Erika ^a   Hassel, Petra ^a   Queisser, Anna Lisa ^a   Niemann, Heiner ^a,b  

^a Institute of Farm Animal Genetics FLI   (Germany)

^b Institute of Farm Animal Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL CLONING; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GILT (SWINE); MALE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PIGLET; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 51349092848     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2008.0026     Document Type: Article

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