Is it best to cryopreserve human cumulus-free immature oocytes before or after in vitro maturation?

Cryobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 79-87

  Wang, Haiyan ^a,c   Racowsky, Catherine ^a   Combelles, Catherine M H ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Choline based slow freezing; Chromosomes; Immature oocyte; In vitro maturation; Mature oocyte; Oocyte cryopreservation; Spindle

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; CSC MEDIA; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SAGE CHOLINE SUBSTITUTED CRYOPRESERVATION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CUMULUS FREE IMMATURE OOCYTE; FEMALE; FREEZING; GERMINAL VESICLE; HTF MEDIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; IVM MEDIUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEIOSIS; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ADULT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE; CHROMATIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES;

EID: 84864316983     PISSN: 00112240     EISSN: 10902392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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