Updating quality control assays in the assisted reproductive technologies laboratory with a cryopreserved hamster oocyte DNA cytogenotoxic assay

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 129-134

  Chan, Philip J ^a   Calinisan, J Hazel ^a   Corselli, Johannah U ^a   Patton, William C ^a   King, Alan ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comet assay; Hamster ova; In vitro fertilization; Quality control; Single cell gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE; AGAROSE; DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOTOXICITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE; GENOTOXICITY; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HAMSTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING;

ANIMALS; COMET ASSAY; CRICETINAE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FEMALE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 0034983373     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009472323011     Document Type: Article

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