Influences of retrieval stages and glutathione addition on post-thaw viability of quick frozen mouse morula during in vitro culture

Theriogenology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 681-687

  Aksoy, M ^a,b   Takahashi, Y ^a   Hishinuma, M ^a   Elsheikh, A S ^a   Tanaka, H ^a   Kanagawa, H ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Culture; EDTA; Embryo; GSH; Mouse

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; COLD; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EDETIC ACID; EMBRYO TRANSFER; GLUTATHIONE; MICE; MORULA; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033103718     PISSN: 0093691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-691X(99)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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