A unique method to produce transgenic embryos in ovine, porcine, feline, bovine and equine species

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 741-749

  Pereyra Bonnet, F ^a   Fernandez Martin R ^a   Olivera, R ^a   Jarazo, J ^a   Vichera, G ^a   Gibbons, A ^b   Salamone, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Inst Nac de Tecnol Agropecuaria   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chemical activation; Gene expression; Sperm mediated; Transgenic mammals

Indexed keywords

6 N,N DIMETHYLADENINE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IONOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; HORSE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; METAPHASE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PLASMID; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOON; SWINE; TRANSGENICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CATS; CATTLE; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HORSES; MALE; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; EQUIDAE; FELIDAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS; SUS;

EID: 51949103831     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD07172     Document Type: Article

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