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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 1996
Filed:
May. 09, 1995
Jiewen Li, Columbia, MO (US);
August Rieke, Bland, MO (US);
Billy N Day, Auxvasse, MO (US);
Randall S Prather, Rocheport, MO (US);
Curators of the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (US);
Abstract
This invention is directed to a method of effecting the non-surgical transplant of embryos into the uterus of an animal. The method involves the use of a long tubular gripping instrument having an open forward end and an external gripping formation generally adjacent its forward end. A probe with a long tubular body having an open forward end extends axially inside the gripping instrument. A probing member projects in a generally non-axial direction from the probe body generally adjacent its forward end. The method comprises the steps of inserting the gripping instrument, forward end first, into a cervix of the uterus, and establishing a grip between the walls of the cervix and the external gripping formation on the gripping instrument. While maintaining said grip, the gripping instrument is pulled in a rearward direction to straighten the cervix. At the same time the the probe is pushed in a forward direction to advance the probing member through the cervix to a position generally adjacent a body of the uterus. An embryo carrier is then placed inside the probe body and moved to an embryo release position for release of embryos from the carrier into the uterus.