Enhancement of lipid metabolism with L-carnitine during in vitro maturation improves nuclear maturation and cleavage ability of follicular porcine oocytes

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 912-920

  Somfai, Tamás ^a   Kaneda, Masahiro ^a   Akagi, Satoshi ^a   Watanabe, Shinya ^a   Haraguchi, Seiki ^a   Mizutani, Eiji ^a   Dang Nguyen, Thanh Quang ^b   Geshi, Masaya ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^c   Nagai, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

mitochondria

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; FAT DROPLET; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; METAPHASE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CARNITINE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSSES, GENETIC; CUMULUS CELLS; ECTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; LIPID METABOLISM; METAPHASE; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PHENOMENA; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SUS SCROFA;

SUS;

EID: 80052192133     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD10339     Document Type: Article

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