Cryopreservation of manipulated embryos: Tackling the double jeopardy

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-59

  Dinnyes, A ^a,b   Nedambale, T L ^c,d  

^a BIOTALENTUM LTD   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; ICE; MESSENGER RNA; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; SUCROSE; TREHALOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BREEDING; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHIMERA; CONFERENCE PAPER; COOLING; COST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; GENE EXPRESSION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; SEX DETERMINATION; SOMATIC CELL GENETICS; THAWING; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; VITRIFICATION; WARMING;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 57449093627     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD08220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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