Time-lapse cinematography-compatible polystyrene-based microwell culture system: A novel tool for tracking the development of individual bovine embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 970-978

  Sugimura, Satoshi ^a   Akai, Tomonori ^b   Somfai, Tamás ^a,c   Hirayama, Muneyuki ^a   Aikawa, Yoshio ^a   Ohtake, Masaki ^a   Hattori, Hideshi ^b   Kobayashi, Shuji ^a   Hashiyada, Yutaka ^a   Konishi, Kazuyuki ^a   Imai, Kei ^a  

^a NATIONAL LIVESTOCK BREEDING CENTER   (Japan)

^b DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO LTD   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Bovine embryos; Cleavage pattern; Developmental biology; Embryo; In vitro fertilization; Ovum pickup transport; Pregnancy; Time lapse cinematography; Well of the well; WOW

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INNER CELL MASS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS; CATTLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POLYSTYRENES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TROPHOBLASTS;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE;

EID: 78649944478     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085522     Document Type: Article

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