Movement of water and cryoprotectants in mouse oocytes and embryos at different stages: Relevance to cryopreservation

Fertility Cryopreservation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 16-23

  Kasai, Magosaburo ^a   Edashige, Keisuke ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84864479930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511730207.004     Document Type: Chapter

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