Latrunculin a can improve the birth rate of cloned mice and simplify the nuclear transfer protocol by gently inhibiting actin polymerization

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Terashita, Yukari ^a,b   Wakayama, Sayaka ^a   Yamagata, Kazuo ^a,c   Li, Chong ^a   Sato, Eimei ^b   Wakayama, Teruhiko ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clone; Full term development; Histone modifications; Nuclear transfer procedure

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN B; F ACTIN; LATRUNCULIN A; PHALLOIDIN; ACTIN; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; THIAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE; TUBULIN;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE STRAIN; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BIRTH RATE; CLONING, ORGANISM; CYTOCHALASIN B; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; THIAZOLIDINES; TUBULIN; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84863489702     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.098764     Document Type: Article

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