Table 2 Effect of endoplasmic reticulum stress inhibitor treatment during micromanipulation on the in vitro development of somatic cell nuclear transfer embryos
Treatment | No. of embryos cultured | No. of embryos developed to | Cell no. in blastocysts (mean±S.E) |
≥2-Cell (%) | Blastocyst (%) |
Control | 182 | 126 (69.2) | 23 (12.6)a | 41.7±3.1a |
Sal | 208 | 147 (70.7) | 32 (15.4)ab | 53.7±4.5ab |
TUD | 203 | 150 (73.9) | 41 (20.2)b | 63.0±7.2b |
Sal+TUD | 197 | 140 (71.1) | 24 (12.2)a | 54.0±3.0ab |
Values with different letters are significantly different (p<0.05).