Cryopreservation of Unfertilized Mouse Oocytes: The Effect of Replacing Sodium with Choline in the Freezing Medium

Cryobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 346-354

  Stachecki, James J ^a   Cohen, Jacques ^a   Willadsen, Steen M ^a  

^a SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Choline chloride; Cryopreservation; Mouse; Oocytes

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; SODIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; OOCYTE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLINE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OOCYTES; SODIUM; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032247962     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cryo.1998.2130     Document Type: Article

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