Table 3.
Development of porcine embryos reconstructed by transferring confluent (CON) or nocodazole-treated (NOC) cells into enucleated M I or M II oocytes
| No. of | No. of | No. (%)b of embryos developed to | Mean no. ± SEM | ||||
| Mean no. ± SEM | |||||||
| No. of | complexes | complexes | ≥ 2-cell | Blastocyst | of cells in | ||
| Recipient | Donor | trials | treated | fused (%)a | (2)c | (7)c | blastocysts |
| M I | CON | 4 | 180 | 132 (73.3)d | 7 (5.3)d | 2(1.5)d | 19.0 ± 5.0 |
| NOC | 4 | 179 | 72 (40.2)de | 7 (9.7)d | 0(0)d | - | |
| M II | CON | 3 | 227 | 131 (57.7)d | 50 (38.2)e | 10 (7.6)e | 45.1 ± 6.2 |
| NOC | 3 | 136 | 39 (28.7)e | 6 (15.4)de | 0(0)d | - | |
aPercentage of complexes treated. bPercentage of embryos cultured. cNumbers in parentheses indicate the time of examination (days after culture). d-eValues with different superscripts within each column are significantly different (P < 0.05).