The generation of live offspring from vitrified oocytes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sanchez Partida, L Gabriel ^a   Kelly, Richard D W ^a,b   Sumer, Huseyin ^a   Lo, Camden Y ^a   Aharon, Rotem ^a   Holland, Michael K ^c   O'Bryan, Moira K ^a   John St , Justin C ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CD31 ANTIGEN; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; STAGE SPECIFIC EMBRYO ANTIGEN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN; VIMENTIN; TREHALOSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROGENY; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; TRISOMY; VITRIFICATION; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE;

MUS;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MICE; OOCYTES; TREHALOSE; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 79959584739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021597     Document Type: Article

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