Effects of cryopreservation on meiotic spindles of oocytes and its dynamics after thawing: Clinical implications in oocyte freezing - A review article

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 101-107

  Chen, S U ^a   Lien, Y R ^a   Chao, K H ^a   Ho, H N ^a   Yang, Y S ^a   Lee, T Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Meiotic spindle; Oocyte cryopreservation; Slow freezing; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMAL CELL; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL LEVEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMAL DIGYNY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FERTILIZATION; FREEZING; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE; THAWING; VITRIFICATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0038627531     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(03)00070-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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