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SUBMITTER: Cambra JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7732548 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cambra Josep M JM Jauregi-Miguel Amaia A Alvarez-Rodriguez Manuel M Parrilla Inmaculada I Gil Maria A MA Martinez Emilio A EA Cuello Cristina C Rodriguez-Martinez Heriberto H Martinez Cristina A CA
Frontiers in veterinary science 20201124
Despite its advantages for pig breeding, embryo transfer (ET) has a major handicap: high embryo mortality during the pre- and implantation period, probably caused by divergent phenomena of tolerance between the immunologically unrelated (i.e., allogeneic) embryos and the recipient sow. Thus, to reach a similar maternal tolerance as in conventional breeding by artificial insemination (AI) would be the key to ET-success. For this reason, we studied the expression of the leukemia inhibitory factor ...[more]