Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and – Method of making a transgenic nonhuman animal – Via microinjection of a nucleus into an embryo – egg cell – or...
Reexamination Certificate
2008-01-29
2008-01-29
Bertoglio, Valarie (Department: 1632)
Multicellular living organisms and unmodified parts thereof and
Method of making a transgenic nonhuman animal
Via microinjection of a nucleus into an embryo, egg cell, or...
C800S014000, C600S591000, C435S325000, C435S375000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07323620
ABSTRACT:
A method for activating an equine oocyte comprising exposing oocyte to a medium containing a concentration of calcium of at least about 4 mM. Preferably the oocyte is exposed to this concentration of calcium during activation.
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Vanderwall Dirk K.
Woods Gordon L.
Bertoglio Valarie
Eisenberg, Esq. Howard
Idaho Research Foundation Inc.
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