Conventional freezing, straw, and open-pulled straw vitrification of mouse two pronuclear (2-PN) stage embryos

Animal Biotechnology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 203-212

  Zhao, Xue Ming ^a   Quan, Guo Bo ^a   Zhou, Guang Bin ^a   Hou, Yun Peng ^a   Zhu, Shi En ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conventional freezing; Mouse; Open pulled straw (OPS); Two pronuclear embryo; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; FREEZING; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

BLASTOCYST RATES; MOUSE; OPEN PULLED STRAW (OPS); TWO PRONUCLEAR EMBRYO;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FICOLL; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; MALE; MORULA; MOUSE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FEMALE; FICOLL; MALE; MICE; MORULA; PREGNANCY; SUCROSE;

EID: 34547382560     PISSN: 10495398     EISSN: 15322378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10495390701201663     Document Type: Article

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