Production of good-quality blastocyst embryos following IVF of ovine oocytes vitrified at the germinal vesicle stage using a cryoloop

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1204-1215

  Moawad, Adel R ^a,b,c   Zhu, Jie ^a   Choi, Inchul ^a,d   Amarnath, Dasari ^a,e   Chen, Wenchao ^a   Campbell, Keith H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Taconic Farms Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

oocyte; vitrification

Indexed keywords

MATURATION PROMOTING FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS CELL; CYTOGENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERMINAL VESICLE; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVINE MODEL;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; CUMULUS CELLS; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; MALE; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; SPINDLE APPARATUS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84885597145     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12215     Document Type: Article

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