The pig is considered to be a suitable source of cells and organs for xenotransplants, as well
as a transgenic animal to produce specific proteins, given the biological similarities it shares …

Compared to other mammalian species, pig oocytes and embryos are characterized by high
lipid contents stored mainly as lipid droplets in the cytoplasm. This fact has a negative …

La producción de embriones in vitro (PIV) es una biotecnología reproductiva que impacta
los siste-mas ganaderos favoreciendo el mejoramiento ge-nético y que también se ha …

In the present study, the effects of glucose and/or glycine on the in vitro development of Day
5 (Day 0= IVF) porcine blastocysts were determined. The addition of 2.5–10 mM glucose to …

The present study was conducted to determine the relationship between embryonic
development speed at different stages (the cleaved stage at 52 h and the blastocyst stage at …

The objective of the present study was to determine the effects of replacing glucose with
pyruvate and lactate during the first 48 h of in vitro culture (IVC) in NCSU-23 medium on …

In this study, the developmental ability and cellular composition of porcine IVF, parthenote
and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryos were evaluated following different in vitro …

The aims of this study were to investigate improvements to the pig preimplantation embryo
culture system using in vitro produced embryos. For experiment 1, the optimum time to …

In addition to their major role in food production, pigs have become an increasingly
important species in biomedical applications involving the production of pharmaceutical …

The embryo culture technique has been improving, but the detailed demands for energy
substrates such as glucose, fructose, pyruvate and lactate of preimplantation embryos are …