Prospective randomized study comparing human serum albumin with fetal cord serum as protein supplement in culture medium for in-vitro fertilization

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2263-2266

  Laverge, H ^a   De Sutler, P ^a   Desmet, R ^a   Van der Elst, J ^a   Dhont, M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Culture media; Fetal cord serum; Human serum albumin; IVF ET; Protein supplement

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORD SERUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030733545     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.10.2263     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Ashwood-Smith, M.J., Hollands, P. and Edwards, R.G. (1989) The use of Albuminar 5 (TM) as a medium supplement in clinical IVF. Hum. Reprod., 4, 702-705.
2. Barnes, D. and Sato, G. (1980) Methods for growth of cultured cells in serumfree medium, Anal Biochem., 102, 255-270.
3. Bavister, B.D. (1995) Culture of preimplantation embryos: facts and artefacts. Hum. Reprod. Update, 1, 91-148.
4. Caro, C. and Trounson, A. (1986) Successful fertilization, embryo development, and pregnancy in human in-vitro fertilization (IVF) using a chemically defined culture medium containing no protein. J. Vitro Fertil Embryo Transfer, 3, 215-217.
5. Conaghan, J., Handyside, A.H., Winston, R.M. et al. (1993) Effects of pyruvate and glucose on development of human preimplantation embryos in vitro. J. Reprod. Fertil, 99, 87-95.
6. Dokras, A., Sargent, I.L., Redman, C.W.G. et al. (1993) Sera from women with unexplained infertility inhibit both mouse and human embryo growth in vitro. Fertil Steril., 60, 285-292.
7. Dozortsev, D., De Sutler, P., Rybouchkin, A. et al. (1996) Methodology of intracytoplasmic sperm injection in the human. Ass. Reprod. Rev., 6, 38-44.
8. Fissore, R.A., Jackson, K.V. and Kiessling, A.A. (1989) Mouse zygote development in culture medium without protein in the presence of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. Biol. Reprod., 41, 835-841.
9. Hardy, K., Hooper, M.A.K., Handyside, A.H., et al. (1989) Non invasive measurement of glucose and pyruvate uptake by individual human oocytes and preimplantation embryos. Hum. Reprod., 4, 188-191.
10. Hargreaves, C.A., Rahman, F., Santis, M., et al. (1995) Serum is more effective than albumin in promoting human embryo development and implantation. Fertil Steril, 64, 1162-1166.
11. Kane, M.T. and Fahy, M.M. (1992) Blastocyst growth and development. In: Bavister, B.D. (ed.), Preimplantation embryo development. Plenum, New York.
12. Kruger, T.F., Stander, F.S.H., Smith, K. et al. (1987) The effect of serum supplementation on the cleavage of embryos. J. Vitro Fertil Embryo Transfer, 4, 10-12.
13. Laverge, H., De Sutler, P., Verschraegen-Spae, M.R. et al. (1997) Triple color fluorescent in-situ hybridization for chromosomes X, Y and 1 on spare human embryos. Hum. Reprod., 12, 809-814.
14. Léveillé, M., Carnegie, J. and Tanphaichitr, N. (1992) Effect of human sera and human serum albumin on mouse embryo culture. J. Ass. Reprod. Genet., 9, 45-52.
15. Ogawa, T. and Marrs, R.P. (1987) The effect of the protein supplementation on single-cell mouse embryos in vitro. Fertil Steril, 47, 156-161.
16. Schramm, R.D. and Bavister, B.D. (1996) Development of in-vitro fertilized primate embryos into blastocysts in a chemically defined, protein-free culture medium. Hum. Reprod., 11, 1690-1697.
17. Staessen, C., Van den Abbeel, E., Carle, M., et al. (1990) Comparison between human serum and albuminar-20™ supplement for in-vitro fertilization. Hum. Reprod., 5, 336-341.
18. Staessenm, C., Van den Abbeel, E., Janssenswillen, C., et al. (1994) Controlled comparison of Earle's balanced salt solution with Ménézo B2 medium for human in-vitro fertilization performance. Hum. Reprod., 9, 1915-1919.