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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2017
Kiho Lee, Columbia, MO (US);
Randall S. Prather, Columbia, MO (US);
Kiho Lee, Columbia, MO (US);
Randall S. Prather, Columbia, MO (US);
The Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides novel methods for improving the efficiency of artificial activation of unfertilized mammalian oocytes by reducing the intracellular concentration of Znin the oocyte. The methods of the invention may additionally comprise a preceding step of increasing the intracellular concentration of Cain the oocyte prior to reduction of the intracellular Znconcentration. The invention further provides unfertilized oocytes activated by the disclosed methods and viable mammalian animals produced from unfertilized oocytes activated by the disclosed methods.