Chromosome and spindle configurations of human oocytes matured in vitro after cryopreservation at the germinal vesicle stage

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 920-926

  Park, Sung Eun ^a   Lee, Kyung Ah ^a   Son, Weon Young ^a   Ko, Jung Jae ^a   Lee, Sook Hwan ^a   Cha, Kwang Yul ^a  

^a CHA General Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

1,2 Propanediol; Chromosome; Cryopreservation; Human immature oocytes; Spindle; Unstimulated ovaries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0342601365     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00365-8     Document Type: Article

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