Comparison of survival and embryonic development in human oocytes cryopreserved by slow-freezing and vitrification

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1306-1311

  Cao, Yun Xia ^a   Xing, Qiong ^a   Li, Li ^a   Cong, Lin ^a   Zhang, Zhi Guo ^a   Wei, Zhao Lian ^a   Zhou, Ping ^a  

^a First Affiliated Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

chromosome; development; fertilization; human; meiotic spindle; oocyte; Slow freezing; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FREEZE THAWING; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRIFICATION;

BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 69049113943     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.08.069     Document Type: Article

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