Epigenetic disorders and altered gene expression after use of assisted reproductive technologies in domestic cattle

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 803-815

  Urrego, Rodrigo ^a,b   Rodriguez Osorio, Nélida ^a   Niemann, Heiner ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CES   (Colombia)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Embryo culture; Genome imprinting; In vitro maturation; Superovulation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 1C; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 3; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ; RNA H19; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

ALLELE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA METHYLATION; DOMESTIC CATTLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLICULAR ASPIRATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PEG3 GENE; PLAGL1 GENE; REVIEW; SUPEROVULATION; UPREGULATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; OOCYTE; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSPLANTATION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERMATOZOA; SUPEROVULATION;

EID: 84901747860     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.28711     Document Type: Review

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