0 past simple and past participle of inseminate --
1 to put a male animal's sperm into a female animal, either by the sexual act or by an artificial method --
The other inseminated oocytes were further cultured for up to 8 days.
In the second experiment, 380 ewes were inseminated at different times before or after ovulation, producing 537 lambs.
All eggs remained unactivated until they were inseminated by the conventional method.
Only ten out of the 313 females that mated were not inseminated and seven of these mated with irradiated males.
Oocytes inseminated after the first minute of activation did not become fertilised, indicating that the block to polyspermy had been established.
The final purpose of this study was to investigate the possibility of using this activation method to activate inseminated oocytes that were not fully activated.
Oocytes were inseminated with 5 x 104 motile spermatozoa and cultured under the same conditions.
Inseminated females producing no larvae over this 6-day period were considered sterile.
