Replacing serum in culture medium with albumin and insulin, transferrin and selenium is the key to successful bovine embryo development in individual culture

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 717-724

  Wydooghe, E ^a   Heras, S ^a   Dewulf, J ^a   Piepers, S ^a   Van Den Abbeel, E ^a   De Sutter, P ^a   Vandaele, L ^b   Van Soom, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autocrine factors; Blastocyst quality; Epidermal growth factor; In vitro embryo production; ITS; Semi defined medium

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; INSULIN; SELENIUM; TRANSFERRIN; ALBUMINOID; CULTURE MEDIUM;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HATCHING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; SERUM; SPERMATOZOON; ANIMAL; BOVINAE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; INSULIN; SELENIUM; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84903126186     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD13043     Document Type: Article

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