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Table 2. Effects of liver abnormality on the quality of oocytes and their development potential.

Liver condition	N	Oocytes collected		Embryo development
Liver condition	N	Total^#	Good^# (%)*	No. cultured^#	No. cleaved^# (%)^##	No. blastocysts^# (%)^##
Control	8	34.8 ± 7.5	29.1 ± 6.3 (84.5 )^a	21.2 ± 3.5	16.0 ± 7.7 (74.8)	8.0 ± 1.2 (38.9)^a
Abnormal	8	25.4 ± 4.6	15.8 ± 2.8 (61.6)^b	15.0 ± 2.1	10.8 ± 5.7 (69.7)	2.1 ± 0.5 (13.2)^b

N: No. of cattle examined. ^#Data were summarized as means ± SEM of 8 cattle. *Percentages of total No. oocytes. ^## Percentages of No. cultured. ^a-b Values with different superscripts within the same column differ significantly (P<0.05).