Production of viable piglets for the first time using sperm derived from ectopic testicular xenografts

Reproduction

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 331-335

  Nakai, Michiko ^a   Kaneko, Hiroyuki ^a   Somfai, Tamas ^a   Maedomari, Naoki ^a,b   Ozawa, Manabu ^a   Noguchi, Junko ^a   Ito, Junya ^b   Kashiwazaki, Naomi ^b   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FETUS; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SPERM; TESTIS; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CASTRATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOGENESIS; SWINE; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 75149133215     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-09-0509     Document Type: Article

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