Effect of culture system on developmental competence, cryosurvival and DNA-fragmentation of in vitro bovine blastocysts

International Journal of Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-26

  Hajian, Mahdi ^a   Hosseini, Seyed Morteza ^a   Asgari, Vajiheh ^a   Ostadhoosseini, Somayyeh ^a   Forouzanfar, Mohsen ^a,b   Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein Nasr ^a  

^a ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Co Culture; Cryoperservation; Embryo Development; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL EXPANSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; VERO CELL; VITRIFICATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 79959878440     PISSN: 2008076X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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