Potential importance of vitrification in reproductive medicine

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1671-1680

  Liebermann, Juergen ^a   Nawroth, Frank ^b   Isachenko, Vladimir ^b   Isachenko, Evgenia ^b   Rahimi, Gohar ^b   Tucker, Michael J ^a,c  

^a Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Georgia Reproductive Specialists LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Embryo

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LIPID; POLYMER; BUFFER;

ANIMAL CELL; BLASTOCYST; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MACROMOLECULE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATOZOON; THAWING; VITRIFICATION; WARMING; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BUFFERS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 1842864411     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.006833     Document Type: Short Survey

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