Vitrification preserves chromatin integrity, bioenergy potential and oxidative parameters in mouse embryos

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Martino, Nicola A ^a   Dell'Aquila, Maria E ^a   Cardone, Rosa A ^a   Somoskoi, Bence ^b   Lacalandra, Giovanni M ^a   Cseh, Sandor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; LIQUID NITROGEN; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMA; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MORULA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; VITRIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHROMATIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENERGY METABOLISM; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MORULA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84875650870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-11-27     Document Type: Article

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