Production of live offspring from testicular tissue cryopreserved by vitrification procedures in Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Liu, ianan ^b   Cheng, Kimberly M ^a   Silversides, Frederick G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Intramagnal insemination; Japanese quail; Testicular tissue; Transplantation; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX JAPONICA; CRYOPRESERVATION; EGG PRODUCTION; FERTILIZATION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SURVIVAL; TESTIS; VITRIFICATION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; INTRAMAGNAL INSEMINATION; JAPANESE QUAIL; TESTICULAR TISSUE; TRANSPLANTATION; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; COTURNIX; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; TESTIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84879155486     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.108951     Document Type: Article

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