background: the specific antibody response against newcastle disease virus (ndv) in the blood serum of chickens hatched from eggs exposed to low dose gamma-radiation was studied. materials and methods: two groups of eggs of commercial meat chicken lines were irradiated with the dose of 0.30 gy 60co gamma-rays before incubation and on the 19th day of incubation, respectively. the same number of ...

introduction: this study was started to improve in vitro blastocyst development and avoiding of blastocyst collapsment (no visibie cavity, returning of hatching blastocyst into zona pellucida, and tendency to degeneration). materials and methods: 24hrs one - cell mouse embryos were recovered from positive plug females and cultured in following canditions: experiments 1,2: during first 48hrs nmr...

background: successful embryo transfer (et) technique is a fateful step of all efforts to achieve live births from in vitro produced embryos in assisted reproductive techniques or in knockout, transgenic or cloned animal projects. small reproductive tract of mice and limitation of current techniques may not well satisfy the requirements for mass production of genetically modified mice. genetic ...

A total of 2160 images of candled, incubated ostrich eggs were digitized to determine the percentage of egg volume occupied by the air cell at different stages of incubation. The air cell on average occupied 2.5% of the volume of fresh eggs. For eggs that hatched successfully, this volume increased to an average of 24.4% at 41 days of incubation, just prior to hatching. Air cell volume at 29 da...

BACKGROUND Arresting at a certain stage of development like the two-cell stage could be one of the causes of infertility. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of ethanol and strontium on growth and development of mice embryos arrested at the two-cell stage. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this experimental study, female mice were coupled with a male following superovulation. Positive vag...

To evaluate the effects of sequential, repetitive freezing on their in-vitro development, mouse embryos at the eight- to 16-cell stage were subjected to one of five treatments. They were (i) cultured as unfrozen controls, (ii) frozen once and cultured, (iii) subjected to two consecutive freeze-thaw cycles, (iv) frozen and thawed, and then cultured for 18-30 h before being frozen a second time, ...

Broiler performance is known to be related to embryonic developmental parameters. However, strain or genotype differences with regard to embryo physiological parameters and juvenile growth have received little attention. A total of 1,200 hatching eggs produced by Cobb and Ross broiler breeders of the same age were studied. At setting for incubation and between 66 and 130 h of incubation, egg re...