Recovery of mare oocytes on a fixed biweekly schedule, and resulting blastocyst formation after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Theriogenology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1116-1126

  Jacobson, Candace C ^a   Choi, Young Ho ^a   Hayden, Shelby S ^a   Hinrichs, Katrin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo; Horse; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Oocyte; Ovarian follicle

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLOOD; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORSE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HORSES; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 77950019533     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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