Increasing dehydration of human cleavage-stage embryos prior to slow cooling significantly increases cryosurvival

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 521-525

  Edgar, David H ^a,b   Karani, Jerustin ^a   Gook, Debra A ^a,b  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryoprotectant; Cryosurvival; Dehydration; Human embryo; Slow cooling; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLASTOMERE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEHYDRATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOSIS; NIDATION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE;

EID: 70449105115     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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