Successful cryopreservation of mouse ovaries by vitrification

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 881-887

  Migishima, Fujio ^a,b   Suzuki Migishima, Rika ^a   Song, Si Young ^a   Kuramochi, Takashi ^a   Azuma, Sadahiro ^a   Nishijima, Masahiro ^b   Yokoyama, Minesuke ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KAGAKU INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization; Ovary; Ovulation; Ovum pick up transport; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPEROVULATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VITRIFICATION;

ACETAMIDES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037371504     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.007948     Document Type: Article

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