Research Article
Contribution of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Chimeras through Injection and Coculture of Embryos
Table 3
Generation of chimeric mice using iPSCs.
| Method | Number of embryos transferred | Number of recipients | Number of pregnant recipients (%) | Number of pups | Number of chimeras (%) |
| 8-cell coculture | 341 | 16 | 1 (6.3)a | 1 | 0 (0) | 8-cell injection | 192 | 11 | 10 (90.9)b | 58 | 8 (13.8)a | Blastocyst injection | 287 | 14 | 9 (64.3)b | 83 | 0 (0)b |
| Total | 820 | 41 | 20 (48.8) | 142 | 8 (5.6) |
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Values with different superscripts within the same column are significantly different ().
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