Therapeutic cloning by xenotransplanted oocytes, supplemented with species specific reprogramming factors

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 527-529

  Riaz, Amjad ^a,b   Javeed, Aqeel ^a   Zhou, Qi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CELL EXTRACT; SPECIES SPECIFIC REPROGRAMMING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OOCYTE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SOMATIC CELL; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; OOCYTES; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 79952315875     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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