Optimal equilibration conditions for practical vitrification of two-cell mouse embryos

Comparative Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 342-346

  Otsuka, Jun ^a   Takahashi, Akira ^a   Nagaoka, Masato ^a   Funabashi, Hideyuki ^a  

^a YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FREEZING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION; TEMPERATURE; VITRIFICATION; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EVALUATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE STRAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TIME;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036672225     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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