Vitrification of oocytes, embryos and blastocysts

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 789-803

  Mukaida, Tetsunori ^a   Oka, Chikahiro ^b  

^a Hiroshima HART Clinic   (Japan)

^b Tokyo HART Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

cryopreservation of eggs and embryos; human ART; infertility treatment; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ICE; LIQUID NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SHRINKAGE; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DELIVERY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HATCHING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MACHINE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAMMED CRYOMACHINE; SLOW COOLING; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRARAPID COOLING; VITRIFICATION; WARMING;

EID: 84867874733     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2012.07.001     Document Type: Review

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