Pathway for the movement of water and cryoprotectants in bovine oocytes and embryos

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 834-847

  Kawai, Bo Jin ^a   Hara, Takao ^a   Takeda, Shoko ^a   Seki, Shinsuke ^a   Nakata, Yu Ichi ^a   Matsukawa, Kazutsugu ^a   Koshimoto, Chihiro ^b   Kasai, Magosaburo ^a   Edashige, Keisuke ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Developmental biology; Embryo; Ovum

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 3; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLYCEROL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIFFUSION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HEIFER; MALE; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WATER FLOW; WATER PERMEABILITY;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 3; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL SIZE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DIFFUSION; ECTOGENESIS; FACILITATED DIFFUSION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUID SHIFTS; GENE SILENCING; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MORULA; OOCYTES; PERMEABILITY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOVINAE; MUS;

EID: 80955159833     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.088641     Document Type: Article

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