High Osmolality Vitrification: A New Method for the Simple and Temperature-Permissive Cryopreservation of Mouse Embryos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mochida, Keiji ^a   Hasegawa, Ayumi ^a   Li, Ming Wen ^b   Fray, Martin D ^c   Kito, Seiji ^d   Vallelunga, Jadine M ^b   Lloyd, K C Kent ^b   Yoshiki, Atsushi ^a   Obata, Yuichi ^a   Ogura, Atsuo ^a,e,f  

^a RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FICOLL; LIQUID NITROGEN; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIGH OSMOLALITY VITRIFICATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLALITY; PACKAGING; PREGNANCY; RELIABILITY; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VISCOSITY; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DRY ICE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE SURVIVAL; TRANSPORTATION; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84872482135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049316     Document Type: Article

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