Recent advances in the microinsemination of laboratory animals.
Microinsemination techniques were applied to laboratory animals, including mice, Mongolian gerbils, mastomys, guinea pigs and cynomolgus monkeys. After micro-insemination with spermatozoa or round spermatids, their oocytes were successfully fertilized and subsequently developed into 4-cells to blastocysts, depending on species. The efficiencies of microinsemination techniques for producing fertilized oocytes were comparable with, or superior to those of IVF in these species.
Ogura
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Department of Veterinary Science; Tsukuba Primate Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan. aogura@nih.go.jp
Inoue
K
K
Ogonuki
N
N
Suzuki
O
O
Mochida
K
K
Matsuda
J
J
Sankai
T
T
D000818:Animals; D005849:Gerbillinae; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D007315:Insemination, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D008252:Macaca fascicularis; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008845:Microinjections; D009115:Muridae; D013045:Species Specificity