Current status of embryo technologies in sheep and goat.
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...Significant improvement has been achieved in recent years in both the in vivo and in vitro production of farm animal embryos [7,18,34,50]....
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...In case of kidding and calving, the ET rates were respectively 71 and 76% for in vivo produced embryos, and 47 [7] and 30% [31,39] for in vitro produced embryos....
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...The embryos derived from such rescued oocytes are known to have a reduced embryonic developmental potential [7,8,18] and this may have led to a lower percentage of embryos of excellent morphology in the species where superovulation was induced compared to the equine....
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...The treatment, consisting in a combination of decreasing doses of highly purified FSH with an injection of LH at the end of the progestagen treatment, has been successfully used in superovulation of domestic goats for embryo transfer purposes [19]....
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...However, terminal follicular growth was impaired in goats and the beneficial effect of this treatment on the ovulation rate is negated by an increase in the proportion of unfertilised ova and degenerated embryos (Cognie et al., 2003)....
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