Nuclear transfer of sand cat cells into enucleated domestic cat oocytes is affected by cryopreservation of donor cells

Cloning and Stem Cells

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 469-483

  Gómez, Martha C ^a   Pope, C Earle ^a   Kutner, Robert H ^b   Ricks, David M ^a,b   Lyons, Leslie A ^c   Ruhe, Mark ^c   Dumas, Cherie ^a   Lyons, Justine ^a   López, Mónica ^a,d   Dresser, Betsy L ^a,d   Reiser, Jakob ^b  

^a Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CAT; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREEZING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KITTEN; MALE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THAWING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOMERES; CATS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; OOCYTES;

FELIS CATUS; FELIS MARGARITA;

EID: 57149118011     PISSN: 15362302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clo.2008.0021     Document Type: Article

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