The effects of ultrarapid freezing on meiotic and mitotic spindles of mouse oocytes and embryos

Gamete Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 385-401

  Sathananthan, A H ^b   Ng, S C ^a   Trounson, A O ^b   Bongso, A ^a   Ratnam, S S ^a   Ho, J ^a   Mok, H ^a   Lee, M N ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology ^*  (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

cryopreservation; electron microscopy; embryos; microtubules; oocytes; spindles

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ANIMAL CELL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MEIOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FREEZING; IN VITRO; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS;

EID: 0024146886     PISSN: 01487280     EISSN: 15543919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1120210407     Document Type: Article

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