Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine ›› 2011, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 172-177.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-5817.2011.03.004

Special Issue: 实验动物资源开发与利用

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Establishment of Efficient Embryo Transfer System in Transgenic Rabbit and Cloned Rabbit production

LI Hai-bin1, TIAN Jiang-tian2, SONG Jun3, LAI Liang-xue3, GU Wei-wang1   

  1. 1. Laboratory Animal Centre & Department of Comparative Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China;
    2. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China;
    3. Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510530, China
  • Received:2011-02-14 Online:2011-06-25 Published:2011-06-25

Abstract: Objective To establish an efficient platform of embryo transplantation for production of transgenic rabbits through virus transduction and somatic nuclear transfer approaches. Method Fertilized embryos, transgenic embryos, and nuclear transfer embryos were surgically transplanted into oviduct of synchronous or asynchronous estrus rabbits. Result After transplantation with fertilized embryos, transgenic embryos, and nuclear transfer embryos, the pregnant rates of surrogates were 100%, 66.67% and 36.36%, with the birth of 19, 24 and 17 pups. Survival rates of the pups delivered by recipients with fertilized embryos, transgenic embryos, and nuclear transfer embryos were 90.48%, 92.31% and 17.65%, meantime, the ratios of delivered pub to transferred embryos were 43.75%, 21.31% and 8.54%, respectively. Conclusion An efficient rabbit embryo transfer platform was successfully established, which would be the foundation of production of transgenic rabbits and cloned rabbits.

Key words: Rabbit, Embryo transplantation, Superovulation, Fertilized embryo, Transgenic embryo, Nuclear transfer embryo

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