Improved blastocyst development of single cow OPU-derived presumptive zygotes by group culture with agarose-embedded helper embryos

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Deb, Gautam K ^a   Jin, Jong I ^a   Kwon, Tae H ^a   Choi, Byung H ^a   Bang, Jae I ^a   Dey, Shukla R ^a   Cho, In R ^b   Kong, Il Keun ^a  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^b Central Branch of Gyeongnam Livestock Promotion Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; MESSENGER RNA; DYES, REAGENTS, INDICATORS, MARKERS AND BUFFERS; SEPHAROSE;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL MATURATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS OOCYTE COMPLEX; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OVUM PICK UP; RNA EXTRACTION; UPREGULATION; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; CYTOLOGY; ECTOGENESIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; INBRED STRAIN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; BREEDING; CATTLE; CUMULUS CELLS; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPHAROSE; ZYGOTE;

EID: 80052030644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-9-121     Document Type: Article

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