Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) with baboons generate live offspring: A nonhuman primate model for ART and reproductive sciences

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 917-930

  Simerly, Calvin R ^a   Castro, Carlos A ^a   Jacoby, Ethan ^a   Grund, Kevin ^a   Turpin, Janet ^a   McFarland, Dave ^a   Champagne, Jamie ^a   Jimenez Jr , Joe B ^b   Frost, Pat ^b   Bauer, Cassondra ^b   Hewitson, Laura ^a   Schatten, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; baboon; blastocyst; embryo transfer; in vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BABOON; BLASTOCYST; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC SCREENING; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; MALE; PAPIO; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 77957172269     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719110374114     Document Type: Article

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