Survival of mouse oocytes after being cooled in a vitrification solution to -196°C at 95° to 70,000°C/min and warmed at 610° to 118,000°C/min: A new paradigm for cryopreservation by vitrification

Cryobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Mazur, Peter ^a   Seki, Shinsuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling rate; Cryopreservation; Intracellular freezing; Mouse oocytes; Recrystallization; Vitrification; Warming rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VITRIFICATION; WARMING;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; FREEZING; ICE; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; OOCYTES; SOLUTIONS; VITRIFICATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79951512805     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2010.10.159     Document Type: Article

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