Successful culmination of pregnancy and live birth following the transfer of frozen-thawed buffalo embryos.
A total of 141 embryos was recovered by nonsurgical flushing of the uterus of 31 superovulated buffalo. A total of 66 good quality embryos (Grade I and Grade II) was frozen using 1.4 M glycerol. Forty-two of the frozen embryos were thawed randomly over a 1-year period, and a total of 39 embryos (Grades I, II or III post thaw) were transferred into an equal number of estrus synchronized recipients. Of 11 confirmed pregnancies, 9 calves were born live.
Kasiraj
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Buffalo Breeding Centre, Nekarikallu - 522 615 (A.P.), India.
Misra
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Mutha Rao
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Jaiswal
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Rangareddi
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