Improving the Quality of Miniature Pig Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Blastocysts: Aggregation of SCNT Embryos at the Four-cell Stage

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-196

  Terashita, Y ^a   Sugimura, S ^b   Kudo, Y ^a   Amano, R ^a   Hiradate, Y ^a   Sato, E ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL LIVESTOCK BREEDING CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; METHODOLOGY; MINIPIG; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CLONING, ORGANISM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 79952591540     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: 14390531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0531.2010.01614.x     Document Type: Article

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