Ultra-rapid warming yields high survival of mouse oocytes cooled to -196°c in dilutions of a standard vitrification solution

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Seki, Shinsuke ^a,b   Mazur, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; SOLUTE; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THAWING; VITRIFICATION; WARMING; ANIMAL; CELL SHAPE; COLD; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; HEAT; OSMOSIS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STANDARD;

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMALS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURVIVAL; COLD TEMPERATURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; MICE; OOCYTES; OSMOSIS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOLUTIONS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84860449067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036058     Document Type: Article

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