Relationship between the length of cell cycles, cleavage pattern and developmental competence in bovine embryos generated by in vitro fertilization or parthenogenesis

Journal of Reproduction and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 200-207

  Somfai, Tamás ^a,b   Inaba, Yasushi ^a,b   Aikawa, Yoshio ^a   Ohtake, Masaki ^a   Kobayashi, Shuji ^a   Konishi, Kazuyuki ^a   Imai, Kei ^a  

^a NATIONAL LIVESTOCK BREEDING CENTER   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Bovine; Cleavage pattern; Developmental kinetics; Embryo; In vitro culture; Time lapse cinematography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICROSCOPY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PARTHENOGENESIS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 77952608463     PISSN: 09168818     EISSN: 13484400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1262/jrd.09-097A     Document Type: Article

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