Female bovine blastocysts are more prone to apoptosis than male ones

Theriogenology

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 591-600

  Ghys, Emmanuelle ^a   Dallemagne, Matthew ^a   De Troy, Delphine ^a   Sauvegarde, Caroline ^a   Errachid, Abdelmounaim ^a   Donnay, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Blastocyst; Bovine embryo; Sex effect; Sex sorted semen

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; BOVINE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX SELECTION; SPERMATOZOON; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SEX PRESELECTION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84960345704     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2015.09.050     Document Type: Article

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