Lower intracellular concentration of cryoprotectants after vitrification than after slow freezing despite exposure to higher concentration of cryoprotectant solutions

Human Reproduction

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2101-2110

  Vanderzwalmen, P ^a,b   Connan, D ^b   Grobet, L ^b   Wirleitner, B ^a   Remy, B ^b   Vanderzwalmen, S ^c   Zech, N ^a   Ectors, F J ^b  

^a IVF Centers Prof Zech   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c Centre Hospitalier interregional Edith Cavell   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cryoprotectant; intracellular concentration and osmolarity; slow freezing; toxicity; vitrification

Indexed keywords

CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL VOLUME; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DILUTION; FEMALE; FREEZING; GAMETE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL RATE; VITRIFICATION; WARMING; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84880522244     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/det107     Document Type: Article

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