Junko Noguchi

TL;DR: The results suggest that an excellent piglet production system can be established by using this modified IVP system, which produces high-quality porcine blastocysts and has advantages for the generation of cloned and transgenic pigs.

TL;DR: Fkbp6 is a component of the synaptonemal complex essential for sex-specific fertility and for the fidelity of homologous chromosome pairing in meiosis and is identified as the causative mutation in spontaneously male sterile as/as mutant rats.

TL;DR: Cryopreservation of spermatozoa from boar epididymides stored at 4°C for 1 to 2 d can be used for conserving male germ cells when epididcyal spermutozoa can not be collected immediately and cryopreserved.

TL;DR: The results indicate that not only the increased ability for parthenogenetic activation but also the increased fragmentation rate observed in porcine aged oocytes may be attributable in part to the gradual decrease in MPF activity during prolonged culture.

TL;DR: A significant increase in parthenogenetic activation along with significantly dropped GSH level in vitrified oocytes may explain the decreased ability of the SSV group to form male pronuclei, which might have contributed to the poor developmental competence of vitrified Oocytes.