Royana: Successful experience in cloning the sheep

Yakhteh

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 193-200

  Ashtiani, Saeed Kazemi ^a   Nasr Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein ^a,b   Hosseini, Sayyed Mortaza ^a   Moulavi, Fariba ^a   Hajian, Mahdi ^a   Frouzanfar, Mohsen ^c   Abedi, Parvaneh ^a   Meamar, Maryam ^a   Valojerdi, Mojtaba Rezazadeh ^a,d   Gourabi, Hamid ^a   Shahverdi, Abdolhossein ^a   Baharvand, Hossein ^a   Dizaj, Ahmad Vosough ^a   Imani, Hossein ^a   Eftekhari Yazdi, Poopak ^a   Vojgani, Mahdi ^e   Safahani, Mahdi ^f   Radpour, Ramin ^a   Salahshouri, Iman ^a  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY CENTER   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^f Obstetric and Gynecology Unit   (Iran)

Author keywords

Mammalian; Reproductive cloning; Sheep; Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELIVERY; EAR SOMATIC CELL; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE ENUCLEATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; ROYANA; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 52149113326     PISSN: 15614921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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