The amino acids represent our largest group of mutually analogous nutrients.
Correspondingly wide is their representation among metabolites and body components. The …

Pig embryos can be cultured using a number of different strategies including complex
approaches like culture in vivo in a surrogate oviduct (rabbit, sheep, mouse), culture in …

Palacı́n, Manuel, Raúl Estévez, Joan Bertran, and Antonio Zorzano. Molecular Biology of
Mammalian Plasma Membrane Amino Acid Transporters. Physiol. Rev. 78: 969–1054, 1998 …

Oocytes and their companion somatic cells maintain a close association throughout
oogenesis and this association is essential for normal oocyte and follicular development …

BACKGROUND The advances in the world of IVF during the last decades have been rapid
and impressive and culture media play a major role in this success. Until the 1980s fertility …

Simplex optimization has generated several media that have improved the development of
mouse preimplantation embryos in vitro. One objective of this study was to compare the …

Along with the transition from maternal to embryonic genome control the mammalian
preimplantation embryo undergoes significant changes in its physiology during …

The first edition of the Textbook of Assisted Reproductive Techniques was published in
2001. As the textbook now enters its sixth edition, some 45 years since the birth of Louise …

SUSCEPTIBILITY of rodent cells to infection by ecotropic murine leukaemia viruses (MuLV)
is determined by binding of the virus envelope to a membrane receptor that has multiple …

Heterodimeric amino acid transporters are comprised of two subunits, a polytopic membrane
protein (light chain) and an associated type II membrane protein (heavy chain). The heavy …