Nanoliter droplet vitrification for oocyte cryopreservation

Nanomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 553-564

  Zhang, Xiaohui ^a   Khimji, Imran ^a   Shao, Lei ^a   Safaee, Hooman ^a   Desai, Khanjan ^a   Keles, Hasan Onur ^a   Gurkan, Umut Atakan ^a   Kayaalp, Emre ^b   Nureddin, Aida ^a   Anchan, Raymond M ^a   Maas, Richard L ^a   Demirci, Utkan ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

cryopreservation; fertility; nanoliter droplet vitrification; oocyte

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; LIVE BIRTH; MOUSE; NANOENCAPSULATION; NANOMEDICINE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THAWING; VITRIFICATION; WARMING;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; MICE; OOCYTES;

EID: 84859464341     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.11.145     Document Type: Article

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