Nuclear Transfer of Freeze-Dried Somatic Cells into Enucleated Sheep Oocytes

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 43, Issue SUPPL.2, 2008, Pages 417-422

  Loi, P ^a   Matzukawa, K ^b   Ptak, G ^a   Natan, Y ^c   Fulka, J ^d   Arav, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

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

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHEEP; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; SHEEP; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 58149194877     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2008.01193.x     Document Type: Article

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