Current data on the vitrification of human embryos: Which one is the best; zygote, cleavage or blastocyst stage?

Journal of the Turkish German Gynecology Association

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 218-226

  Özmen, Batuhan ^a,c   Schultze Mosgau, Askan ^c   Youssry, Mohammed ^b,c   Diedrich, Klaus ^c   Al Hasani, Safaa ^c   Ünlü, Cihat ^d  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d ACIBADEM HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Embryo; Vitrification; Zygote

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DAMAGE; CELL DIVISION; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EMBRYO; VITRIFICATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 34249874608     PISSN: 13090399     EISSN: 13090380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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