Endoscopic recovery of early preimplantation bovine embryos: Effect of hormonal stimulation, embryo kinetics and repeated collection

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 566-572

  Besenfelder, U ^a,b   Havlicek, V ^a,b   Moesslacher, G ^a   Gilles, M ^c   Tesfaye, D ^c   Griese, J ^c   Hoelker, M ^c   Maddox Hyttel, P ^d   Laurincik, J ^e   Brem, G ^a,f   Schellander, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Department of Ethics and Aesthetics   (Slovakia)

^f Agrobiogen GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SUPEROVULATION; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; PREGNANCY; SUPEROVULATION; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 52149102706     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2007.00953.x     Document Type: Article

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