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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in Pigs

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Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology

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Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) has been successfully applied to clone animals of several species. Pigs are one of the main livestock species for food production and are also important for biomedical research due to their physiopathological similarities with humans. In the past 20 years, clones of several swine breeds have been produced for a variety of purposes, including biomedical and agricultural applications. In this chapter, we describe a protocol to produce cloned pigs by SCNT.

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The authors are thankful to the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) for scholarships and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada for the financial support.

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  1. Department of Animal Science, McGill University, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada

    Werner G. Glanzner & Vilceu Bordignon

  2. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC, Curitibanos, SC, Brazil

    Vitor B. Rissi

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Glanzner, W.G., Rissi, V.B., Bordignon, V. (2023). Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in Pigs. In: Moura, M.T. (eds) Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer Technology . Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2647. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3064-8_10

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