Slow cooling of human oocytes: ultrastructural injuries and apoptotic status

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1023-1034

  Gualtieri, Roberto ^a   Iaccarino, Mirella ^a   Mollo, Valentina ^a   Prisco, Marina ^b   Iaccarino, Stefania ^a   Talevi, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Mediterranean Center of Assisted Reproduction   (Italy)

Author keywords

apoptosis; Assisted reproduction; cryodamage; cryopreservation; human oocyte; mitochondria; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAPHASE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NICK END LABELING; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, SMOOTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL, MITOCHONDRIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; OOCYTES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63149097925     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.076     Document Type: Article

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