Cloned sheep blastocysts derived from oocytes enucleated manually using a pulled pasteur pipette

Cellular Reprogramming

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-23

  Hosseini, S M ^a   Hajian, M ^a   Moulavi, F ^a   Asgari, V ^a   Forouzanfar, M ^a   Nasr Esfahani, M H ^a  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMECOLCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFER; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE RECONSTITUTION; NONHUMAN; PIPETTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER; STEREOMICROSCOPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, ORGANISM; FEMALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; SHEEP;

EID: 84873358156     PISSN: 21524971     EISSN: 21524998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cell.2012.0033     Document Type: Article

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