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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

ABSTRACT .................................................................................<br />

i<br />

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................... iii<br />

TABLE OF CONTENTS ...........................<br />

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS .........................................................<br />

iv<br />

ix<br />

LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................... x<br />

LIST OF TABLES .....................................................................<br />

xi<br />

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................... xii<br />

CHAPTER 1 ..............................................................................<br />

1<br />

Literature review<br />

1.1 Brief history and introduction <strong>of</strong> nuclear transfer 1<br />

1.1.1 ..............................<br />

Early experiments <strong>of</strong> sea urchin and frogs 3<br />

....................................<br />

1.1.2 Mammalian experiments .........................................................<br />

5<br />

1.1.3 Why SCNT? ........................................................................<br />

8<br />

1.1.4 Why are pigs important?<br />

8<br />

1.1.4.1 .........................................................<br />

Fundamental science 8<br />

1.1.4.2 ...............................................................<br />

Medical applications 9<br />

1.1.4.3 ...............................................................<br />

Agricultural applications 10<br />

.........................................................<br />

1.2 Biological factors affecting the efficiency <strong>of</strong> somatic cell cloning......... 11<br />

1.2.1 Recipient cells 11<br />

1.2.1.1 ................................................ ..................... Types <strong>of</strong> recipient cells 11<br />

1.2.1.2 ............................................................<br />

MPF in oocytes .....................................................................<br />

11<br />

1.2.1.2.1 MPF and cell cycle ..................................................................<br />

11<br />

1.2.1.2.2 MPF and oocytes<br />

12<br />

1.2.1.3<br />

..................................................................<br />

MAPK in oocytes ..................................................................<br />

13<br />

1.2.2 Donor cells ...........................................................................<br />

16<br />

1.2.3 Coordination <strong>of</strong> cytoplast-karyoplast cell cycles 17<br />

1.2.3.1 ............................... ..<br />

Recipient-donor cell cycle coordination theory 17<br />

1.2.3.2 .................................<br />

MPF, MAPK, NEBD and PCC in recipient-donor coordination<br />

1.2.4 ............. .. 21<br />

Producing cytoplast-karyoplast couplets: genomic reprogramming......... 21<br />

1.2.4.1 Enucleation <strong>of</strong> the oocytes: maintaining ploidy................................. 21<br />

1.2.4.2 Quiescence <strong>of</strong> donor cells .................................<br />

21<br />

1.2.4.3 Fusion<br />

........................<br />

and activation ......................................<br />

iv

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