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ArticleJournal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS2013

Nonsurgical embryo transfer device compared with surgery for embryo transfer in mice.

Kendra H Steele, James M Hester, Barbara J Stone, Kimberly M Carrico, Brett T Spear, Angelika Fath-Goodin

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Article in Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. A Nonsurgical Embryo Transfer Technique for Fresh and Cultured Blastocysts in Rats.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2020
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  12. Effect of Predator Stress on the Reproductive Performance of Female Mice After Nonsurgical Embryo Transfer.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kendra H SteeleParaTechs Corporation, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. kendrasteele@paratechs.com
James M Hester
Barbara J Stone
Kimberly M Carrico
Brett T Spear
Angelika Fath-Goodin
ParaTechs (United States) · US

Funding

A non-surgical embryo transfer (NSET) device for producing gene-modified miceR44OD010958 · OD · PARATECHS CORP. · PI FATH-GOODIN, ANGELIKA, SPEAR, BRETT T · 2012 to 2012
$709k
A non-surgical embryo transfer (NSET) device for producing gene-modified miceR44RR025737 · NCRR · PARATECHS CORP. · PI FATH-GOODIN, ANGELIKA, SPEAR, BRETT T · 2011 to 2011
$459k
NCRR NIH HHS 2R44RR025737-02NCRR NIH HHS R44 RR025737NIH HHS 8R44OD010958NIH HHS R44 OD010958
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of a murine nonsurgical embryo transfer (NSET) device had been described previously for the transfer of blastocysts, morulae, DNA-microinjected embryos, and embryonic stem cell-containing embryos to create genetically modified mice. However, physiologic effects of the NSET device and traditional surgical methods had not been compared directly. Here we used electrocardiography and fecal corticosterone levels to monitor pseudopregnant mice that underwent anesthesia only, the NSET procedure with or without anesthesia, or surgery. These procedures were performed without the use of actual embryos, to focus on effects of the procedures themselves rather than on any physiologic effects due to the deposition of embryos. As compared with surgery and anesthesia, the NSET procedure was associated with less fluctuation in cardiac rhythm and lower levels of the stress biomarker fecal corticosterone. These results indicate that use of the NSET device avoids these physi- ological perturbations as well as other disadvantages of surgery (for example, postoperative pain and need for postoperative analgesia) and therefore provides a valuable refinement of existing mouse embryo transfer procedures.

Indexed as

Anesthesia, GeneralAnimalsAnimal WelfareBlastocystEmbryo TransferFemaleMiceMice, TransgenicMorulaPregnancy

Identifiers

PMID23562028
PMCPMC3548196
OpenAlexW1481360686

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