A 12-month feeding study of reproduction/development in rats fed meat/milk powder supplemented diets derived from the progeny of cloned cattle produced by somatic cell nuclear transfer

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 321-334

  Yamaguchi, Makiko ^a   Itoh, Masaya ^a   Ito, Yoshihiko ^a   Watanabe, Shinya ^b  

^a Research Institute for Animal Science in Biochemistry and Toxicology   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

12 Month feeding study; Meat; Milk; Progeny of cloned cattle; Rat; Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECT; EATING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MILK; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POWDER; RAT; REPRODUCTION; TIME; URINALYSIS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CATTLE; CLONING, ORGANISM; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EATING; FEMALE; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEAT; MILK; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; POWDERS; RATS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS; URINALYSIS;

BOS; RATTUS;

EID: 55849101711     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: 13484400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.20060     Document Type: Article

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