In Vitro Production of Equine Embryos: State of the Art

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 3-8

  Hinrichs, K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; CULTURE MEDIUM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HORSE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HORSES; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

BOS; EQUIDAE;

EID: 77954053507     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2010.01624.x     Document Type: Article

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