Table 3. In vivo embryo development of oocytes after mice were exposed to cat for 24 h starting from 24 h after eCG injection.
Treatment | Donor mice | Blastocysts obtainedper donor mouse | Cell numberper blastocyst | Recipientmice | Average number ofyoung per recipient | Birth weight of young (g) |
Control | 17 | 20.2±3.3a | 49.0±1.2a | 15 | 8.6±0.5a | 1.89±0.04a |
Stressed | 18 | 7.9±2.0b | 48.3±1.5a | 12 | 3.2±0.4b | 2.08±0.06b |
a–b: Values without a common letter in their superscripts differ significantly (P<0.05) within columns.