Oocyte slow freezing using a 0.2-0.3 M sucrose concentration protocol: Is it really the time to trash the cryopreservation machine?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1101-1107

  Bianchi, Veronica ^a   Lappi, Michela ^a   Bonu, Maria Antonietta ^a   Borini, Andrea ^a  

^a Tecnobios Procreazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

clinical pregnancy; ICSI; implantation oocyte; Oocyte cryopreservation; slow freezing

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZE THAWING; GESTATIONAL SAC; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE; OVARY CYCLE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CELL SURVIVAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; ITALY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCROSE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84860350076     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.01.127     Document Type: Article

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