Successful cryopreservation of expanded equine blastocysts

Theriogenology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-152

  Choi, Y H ^a   Velez, I C ^a   Riera, F L ^b   Roldan J E ^b   Hartman, D L ^c   Bliss, S B ^c   Blanchard, T L ^a   Hayden, S S ^a   Hinrichs, K ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centro de Reproducción Equina Doña Pilar   (Argentina)

^c Hartman Equine Reproduction Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Embryo; Embryo freezing; Embryo transfer; Horse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HORSE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HORSES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 79957767786     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2011.01.028     Document Type: Article

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