Cryotolerance of in vitro-produced porcine blastocysts is improved when using glucose instead of pyruvate and lactate during the first 2 days of embryo culture

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 737-745

  Castillo Martin M ^a   Yeste, M ^b   Morato R ^b   Mogas, T ^b   Bonet, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

energy substrate; vitrification

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PORCINE EMBRYO; SURVIVAL RATE; VITRIFICATION; WARMING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUCOSE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWINE; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84880485898     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD12117     Document Type: Article

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