Supplementing Bovine Embryo Culture Media to Improve the Production and Quality of In Vitro Produced Bovine Embryos

Initial studies in this work explored the role of interleukin-6 (IL6) and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) in preimplantation bovine embryos. Neither cytokine affected the total percentage of embryos which developed to the blastocyst stage in vitro. However, supplementation of IL6 increased blastocy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wooldridge, Lydia Katherine
Other Authors: Animal and Poultry Sciences
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/105143