Generation of Live Piglets for the First Time Using Sperm Retrieved from Immature Testicular Tissue Cryopreserved and Grafted into Nude Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kaneko, Hiroyuki ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^a,b   Nakai, Michiko ^a   Somfai, Tamas ^c   Noguchi, Junko ^a   Tanihara, Fuminori ^b   Ito, Junya ^d   Kashiwazaki, Naomi ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE GLYCOL; INHIBIN; LIQUID NITROGEN; POVIDONE; TESTOSTERONE; TREHALOSE;

AINHIBIN PRODUCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMERSION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUDE MOUSE; OOCYTE; OVIDUCT; PHYLOGENY; PIGLET; PROGENY; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERM RETRIEVAL; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE SYNTHESIS; TISSUE GRAFT; TISSUE GROWTH; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VITRIFICATION; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HETEROGRAFTS; INHIBINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84880844594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070989     Document Type: Article

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