Morphological appearance of the cryopreserved mouse blastocyst as a tool to identify the type of cryoinjury

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1863-1874

  Kasai, Magosaburo ^a   Ito, Kaori ^a   Edashige, Keisuke ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Cryopreservation; Morphology; Mouse; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ICE; PHOSPHATE; SERIC GONADOTROPIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; COLD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTION; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FREEZING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOSIS; SURVIVAL; TOXICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036068301     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.7.1863     Document Type: Article

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