Species-specific telomere length differences between blastocyst cell compartments and ectopic telomere extension in early bovine embryos by human telomerase reverse transcriptase

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 723-733

  Iqbal, Khursheed ^a,b   Kues, Wilfried A ^a   Baulain, Ulrich ^a   Garrels, Wiebke ^a   Herrmann, Doris ^a   Niemann, Heiner ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic injection; Inner cell mass; qFISH; Telomerase; Trophectoderm; Zygote

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOCYST INNER CELL MASS; CATTLE; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; PREGNANCY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 79953286682     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.087205     Document Type: Article

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