A simple medium enables bovine embryos to be held for seven days at 4°C

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ideta, Atsushi ^a   Aoyagi, Yoshito ^a   Tsuchiya, Kanami ^a   Kamijima, Tatsuro ^b   Nishimiya, Yoshiyuki ^b   Tsuda, Sakae ^b  

^a Zen noh Embryo Transfer Center   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIRTH RATE; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879923093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01173     Document Type: Article

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