Effect of varying equilibration time in a two-step vitrification method on the post-warming DNA integrity of mouse blastocysts

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2640-2645

  Kader, Amr ^a,b,d   Choi, Audrey ^a,c   Sharma, Rakesh K ^a   Falcone, Tommaso ^a,b   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Technology and Education   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

apoptotic index; Blastocyst; cryopreservation; DNA integrity index; media protocol; TUNEL; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL EXPANSION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DNA INTEGRITY; EMBRYO; EQUILIBRATION TIME; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG STABILITY; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952110294     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.07.991     Document Type: Article

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