Vitrification of mouse pronuclear embryos after polar body biopsy without direct contact with liquid nitrogen

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1011-1016

  Isachenko, Vladimir ^a   Montag, Markus ^a   Isachenko, Evgenia ^a   Van Der Ven, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aseptic application; Biopsy; Embryo; Mouse; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

LIQUID NITROGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CONTAMINATION; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAW; VITRIFICATION; WARMING;

ANIMALS; BIOPSY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; OOCYTES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 26244466361     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.04.046     Document Type: Article

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