English

Adjective

oviductal ‎(not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the oviduct.
   • 1998 December 11, Yoko Kato et al., “Eight Calves Cloned from Somatic Cells of a Single Adult”, in Science, volume 282, number 5396, DOI:10.1126/science.282.5396.2095, pages 2095-2098:

     Next Reports Eight Calves Cloned from Somatic Cells of a Single Adult Yoko Kato, Tetsuya Tani, Yusuke Sotomaru, Kazuo Kurokawa, Jun-ya Kato, Hiroshi Doguchi, Hiroshi Yasue, Yukio Tsunoda * Eight calves were derived from differentiated cells of a single adult cow, five from cumulus cells and three from oviductal cells out of 10 embryos transferred to surrogate cows (80 percent success).

   • 2000 January 14, Kenji Miyado et al., “Requirement of CD9 on the Egg Plasma Membrane for Fertilization”, in Science, volume 287, number 5451, DOI:10.1126/science.287.5451.321, pages 321-324:

     Eggs were collected 13 to 15 hours after the hCG injection from the oviductal ampulla region under paraffin and were placed in a 400 µl drop of TYH medium (24) equilibrated with 5% CO 2 in air at 37°C. Zona-free eggs were prepared by acidic tyrode according to the method described [B. Hogan, F. Costantini, E. Lacy, Manipulating the Mouse Embryo (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1986)].

   • 2000 August 18, Akira Onishi et al., “Pig Cloning by Microinjection of Fetal Fibroblast Nuclei”, in Science, volume 289, number 5482, DOI:10.1126/science.289.5482.1188, pages 1188-1190:

     [View Larger Version of this Image (106K GIF file)] A fourth surrogate in series C maintained pregnancy after the oviductal transfer of 36 cloned embryos that were derived from fibroblast cultures at passage two.