Mitochondrial bioenergetics plays a key role in multiple basic cellular processes, such as
energy production, nucleotide biosynthesis, and iron metabolism. It is an essential system …

Tissues actively involved in energy metabolism are more likely to face metabolic challenges
from bioenergetic substrates and are susceptible to mitochondrial dysfunction, leading to …

Accessibility of human oocytes for research poses a serious ethical challenge to society.
This fact categorically holds true when pursuing some of the most promising areas of …

Protocols for the successful manipulation and preservation of semen in a given species
depend upon a fundamental knowledge of how spermatozoa respond to the …

Studies were conducted to explore the possibility of employing dromedary camel (Camelus
dromedarius) oocytes as recipient cytoplasts for the development of interspecies somatic …

BACKGROUND Early embryo development (EED) forms the basis of assisted reproductive
technologies (ARTs), which are used to treat human infertility and to propagate other …

Skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction, evidenced by incomplete beta oxidation and
accumulation of fatty acid intermediates in the form of long and medium chain acylcarnitines …

Implantation in cattle is a key developmental checkpoint for pregnancy success. It involves
careful spatiotemporal changes to the transcriptional landscape of the endometrium, with the …

Embryologists working with livestock species were the pioneers in the field of
reprogramming by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). Without the “Dolly experiment,” the …

Trichostatin A (TSA) has previously been used in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to
improve the cloning efficiency in several species, which led our team to investigate the …