Nonsurgical embryo transfer device compared with surgery for embryo transfer in mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-21

  Steele, Kendra H ^a   Hester, James M ^a   Stone, Barbara J ^a   Carrico, Kimberly M ^c   Spear, Brett T ^b   Fath Goodin, Angelika ^a  

^a ParaTechs Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Days post coitum; Dpc; Nonsurgical embryo transfer; NSET

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FECES LEVEL; FEMALE; HEART RHYTHM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONSURGICAL EMBRYO TRANSFER DEVICE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PSEUDOPREGNANCY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MORULA; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84873107042     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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