Abstract
Establishment of optimal methods for equine embryo culture has been slow when compared to some domestic species. In part, this delay was caused by the failure of standard in vitro fertilization techniques in horses. However, the development of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for the assisted fertilization of equine oocytes has resulted in a renewed interest in establishing optimal methods for embryo culture. Currently, ICSI-produced equine embryos are cultured using media designed for other species or other cell cultures and, typically, with the addition of serum. Although systems specifically for horse embryo culture still have not been established, ICSI-produced embryos are developmentally competent and capable of producing live offspring.
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Carnevale, E.M., Maclellan, L.J., Stokes, J.A.E. (2019). In Vitro Culture of Embryos from Horses. In: Herrick, J. (eds) Comparative Embryo Culture. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2006. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9566-0_16
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