Assisted reproduction techniques in the horse

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-93

  Hinrichs, Katrin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

embryo; embryo transfer; equine; fertilisation; follicle; oocyte; preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSFER; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOAL; FOLLICULAR ASPIRATION; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORSE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MARE; MICROMANIPULATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVIDUCT; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECIPIENT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPERMATOZOON; SUBFERTILITY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HORSES; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; VITRIFICATION;

BOVINAE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 84871640337     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12263     Document Type: Article

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