Preliminary experience with human oocyte cryopreservation using 1,2-propanediol and sucrose

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1513-1515

  Tucker, Michael ^a,c   Wright, Graham ^c   Morton, Paula ^c   Shanguo, Li ^b   Massey, Joe ^c   Kort, Hilton ^c  

^a REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Donation; Human; ICSI; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MICROINJECTION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY; SPERM;

EID: 0029830164     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019428     Document Type: Article

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