Rapid movement of water and cryoprotectants in pig expanded blastocysts via channel processes: Its relevance to their higher tolerance to cryopreservation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Jin, Bo ^a   Higashiyama, Ryu ichi ^a   Nakata, Yu ichi ^a   Yonezawa, Jun ichi ^b   Xu, Shangdan ^b   Miyake, Masashi ^b   Takahashi, Sei ichi ^a   Kikuchi, Kazuhiro ^c   Yazawa, Ken ichi ^a   Mizobuchi, Shuhei ^a   Niimi, Saori ^a   Kitayama, Mizuho ^a   Koshimoto, Chihiro ^d   Matsukawa, Kazutsugu ^a   Kasai, Magosaburo ^a   Edashige, Keisuke ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Developmental biology; Embryo; Ovum

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 3; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FETUS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OSMOLALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SWINE;

CRYOPRESERVATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO; OVUM;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 3; BLASTOCYST; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; FACILITATED DIFFUSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLYCEROL; IN VITRO OOCYTE MATURATION TECHNIQUES; MALE; MORULA; OOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA; SUS SCROFA; WATER-ELECTROLYTE BALANCE;

EID: 84899879900     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.107250     Document Type: Article

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