Efficient embryo transfer in the common marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus) with a reduced transfer volume: A non-surgical approach with cryopreserved late-stage embryos1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Ishibashi, Hidetoshi ^a   Motohashi, Hideyuki H ^a   Kumon, Mami ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Okada, Hironori ^a   Okada, Takashi ^a   Seki, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birth weight; Cryopreservation; Double embryo transfer; Endometrium; Litter size

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALLITHRIX; CALLITRICHINAE; CONCEPTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; VITRIFICATION;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOUBLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; LITTER SIZE;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; LITTER SIZE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84881006571     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.109165     Document Type: Article

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