Live piglets derived from in vitro-produced zygotes vitrified at the pronuclear stage

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-49

  Somfai, Tamás ^a,c   Ozawa, Manabu ^a   Noguchi, Junko ^a   Kaneko, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakai, Michiko ^a   Maedomari, Naoki ^b   Ito, Junya ^b   Kashiwazaki, Naomi ^b   Nagai, Takashi ^d   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL LIVESTOCK BREEDING CENTER   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Embryo transfer; In vitro fertilization; Pig; Vitrification; Zygote

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; LIQUID NITROGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PIGLET; PREGNANCY; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; VITRIFICATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUTATHIONE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PREGNANCY; SWINE; ZYGOTE;

SUGARCANE STREAK VIRUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 58149522500     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.070235     Document Type: Article

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