Short-term urea feeding decreases in vitro hatching of bovine blastocysts

Theriogenology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Ferreira, F A ^a   Gomez, R G G ^b   Joaquim, D C ^b   Watanabe, Y F ^b   de Castro e Paula, L A ^c   Binelli, M ^a   Rodrigues, P H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Vitrogen Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Biotecnologia da Reprodução S C Ltda   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cattle; Embryonic development; Non protein nitrogen; Oocyte; Plasma urea nitrogen

Indexed keywords

BOS; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE;

EID: 79958812321     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2011.02.008     Document Type: Article

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