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Embryo Transfer Into Rabbit: A Procedure for Laparoscopy-Guided Transfer of Embryos Into Oviduct of Ovulating Recipient Female Rabbit Model
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2025
This video describes the technique of transferring embryos into the oviduct of a recipient female rabbit via Laparoscopy. It allows embryo remodeling in rabbits during its migration through the oviduct, eventually helping in successful implantation. This technique can also be used for stored embryos with good efficiency.
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Alginate Hydrogels for Three-Dimensional Organ Culture of Ovaries and Oviducts
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Culture of normal cells in their three-dimensional context represents an alternative method to study early events required for cellular transformation and tumorigenesis. This method is used to grow normal ovarian and oviductal cells to study early events in ovarian cancer formation.
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Embryo Microinjection and Electroporation in the Chordate Ciona intestinalis
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2016
We present transient transgenesis and gene knockdown in Ciona intestinalis, a chordate sister group to vertebrates, using microinjection and electroporation techniques. Such methods facilitate functional genomics in this simple invertebrate that features rudimentary characteristics of vertebrates, including notochord and head sensory epithelia, and many orthologs of human disease associated genes.
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Improved Genome Editing via Oviductal Nucleic Acids Delivery-based In Vivo Electroporation Technique for Knockout Mice Generation
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2025
The efficiency of the Improved Genome Editing via Oviductal Nucleic Acids Delivery (I-GONAD) method is comparable to traditional microinjection, which requires zygote collection from donor females and transfer to pseudo-pregnant females. This protocol demonstrates its effectiveness by introducing CRISPR/Cas9-induced mutations into the ROSA26 locus on chromosome 6.
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Loss- and Gain-of-function Approach to Investigate Early Cell Fate Determinants in Preimplantation Mouse Embryos
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2016
The goal of this protocol is to describe a loss- and gain-of function method that is applicable to identify neogenin as a stage-specific receptor that leads to trophectoderm and inner cell mass differentiation in preimplantation mouse embryos.
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Transport depends on two complementary forces: ciliary movement helps guide contents through the tract, while smooth-muscle contractions contribute to movement along it. Their activity occurs alongside oviductal secretions, so embryo displacement is linked to the local chemical environment rather than treated as a purely mechanical event. This coordination supports progression toward the uterus during cleavage.
The ampulla is important because fertilization usually occurs there, placing the newly formed embryo within the oviduct at the beginning of preimplantation development. From this point, cleavage proceeds as the embryo travels through the tract. Studying this interval connects the fertilization site with the embryo’s later transition into the uterus.
Oviductal secretions contribute to a supportive microenvironment while embryos undergo cleavage and transport. Their importance extends beyond movement because the oviduct provides conditions in which early development and embryo–maternal communication can be examined before uterine entry. This makes secretions a relevant part of understanding how the tract supports embryos during the preimplantation period.
Researchers can examine a linked sequence of events, including fertilization, cleavage, movement through the oviduct, communication between the embryo and maternal tract, and transition to the uterus. Considering these events together shows how early development is coordinated with reproductive-tract transport, rather than treating cleavage as an isolated process.
Oviduct embryos provide a biological context for studying the period between fertilization and uterine entry, which is central to preimplantation development. Findings from this context can inform reproductive biology and assisted reproduction by clarifying how early embryos develop while exposed to tract movement and secretions before reaching the uterus.
In animal breeding, studying these embryos helps connect reproductive-tract conditions with early developmental progression, supporting investigation of processes relevant to reproduction. In developmental biology, the same system offers a way to examine fertilization, cleavage, embryo–maternal communication, and uterine transition as related stages within early embryonic development.