Field trial to compare pregnancy rates of bovine embryo cryopreservation methods: Vitrification and one-step dilution versus slow freezing and three- step dilution

Theriogenology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1071-1084

  Van Wagtendonk de Leeuw, A M ^a   Den Daas, J H G ^a   Rall, W F ^b  

^a HG   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine embryos; Cryopreservation; Embryo transfer; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

COW; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMULSION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 0031410336     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(97)00340-3     Document Type: Article

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