Successful cryopreservation of rat pronuclear-stage embryos by rapid cooling

Cryobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 226-228

  Seita, Yasunari ^a   Okuda, Yasushi ^a   Kato, Megumi ^b   Kawakami, Yasushi ^a   Inomata, Tomo ^a   Ito, Junya ^a   Kashiwazaki, Naomi ^a  

^a AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Pronuclear stage; Rapid cooling; Rat

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LIQUID NITROGEN; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL CALF SERUM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; RAT;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 69049099834     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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