59 research outputs found

    Importance of breaking a spermatozoon's tail before intracytoplasmic injection: a prospective randomized trial.

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    Clinical TrialJournal ArticleRandomized Controlled TrialSCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

    Cryopreservation of human failed maturation oocytes shows that vitrification gives superior outcomes to slow cooling.

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    This study investigated whether failed maturation oocytes could be used to evaluate different cryopreservation procedures. A total of 289 failed maturation oocytes (GV and MI stages), obtained from 169 patients undergoing IVF treatment (mean age 33.84±5.0) were divided into two different slow-cooling groups (1.5 mol/l 1,2-propanediol+0.2 mol/l sucrose in either NaCl (group A) or choline chloride (ChCl) (group B) based cryopreservation solutions) and one vitrification group (15% ethylene glycol+15% dimethyl sulphoxide). Survival rate, in vitro maturation (IVM) rate, fertilization and developmental rate of cryopreserved oocytes were assessed. Regardless of the stage at which cryopreservation was performed (GV+MI), the slow cooling with ChCl based medium always gave significantly lower survival rate than the slow cooling in NaCl based medium (p=0.01) and vitrification (p<0.001). An extended study also showed statistically reduced survival rate between slow-cooling NaCl based medium and vitrification (p<0.05). Global results of in vitro maturation and fertilization showed worse results between both slow-cooling NaCl and ChCl based media versus vitrification. In conclusion, for oocytes that had failed to mature, vitrification gave better survival, maturation, fertilization and also cleavage rates than the slow-cooling protocols. Four cells embryos were obtained only from vitrified in vitro matured MI oocytes.Journal ArticleResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tSCOPUS: ar.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe

    Comparison of CO2 calibration of incubator with dräger tubes and fyrite liquid

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    info:eu-repo/semantics/published16th Annual Meeting of ESHRE, Bologna Italy, June 200
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