Advances in the cryopreservation of mammalian oocytes and embryos: development of ultrarapid vitrification

M Kasai - Reproductive Medicine and Biology, 2002 - Springer
The cryopreservation of embryos has become a powerful tool in assisted reproduction in
several mammalian species. Embryos are cryopreserved by slow freezing or by vitrification …

Viral contamination of embryos cryopreserved in liquid nitrogen

A Bielanski, S Nadin-Davis, T Sapp, C Lutze-Wallace - Cryobiology, 2000 - Elsevier
Despite the worldwide application of embryo-freezing technology as the means of
preserving germplasm of mammalian species, there is no information available on the …

The dominance of warming rate over cooling rate in the survival of mouse oocytes subjected to a vitrification procedure

S Seki, P Mazur - Cryobiology, 2009 - Elsevier
The formation of more than trace amounts of ice in cells is lethal. The two contrasting routes
to avoiding it are slow equilibrium freezing and vitrification. The cryopreservation of …

Factors affecting the survivability of bovine oocytes vitrified in droplets

K Papis, M Shimizu, Y Izaike - Theriogenology, 2000 - Elsevier
Vitrification of bovine oocytes performed using the traditional, in straw system has not given
satisfactory results. Although an alternative approach based on minimizing the volume of the …

Ultra-rapid warming yields high survival of mouse oocytes cooled to− 196 C in dilutions of a standard vitrification solution

S Seki, P Mazur - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Intracellular ice is generally lethal. One way to avoid it is to vitrify cells; that is, to convert cell
water to a glass rather than to ice. The belief has been that this requires both the cooling rate …

In-straw cryoprotectant dilution of IVP bovine blastocysts vitrified in hand-pulled glass micropipettes

AD Vieira, F Forell, C Feltrin, JL Rodrigues - Animal reproduction science, 2007 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to determine the influence of two ethylene glycol-based vitrification
solutions on in vitro and in vivo survival after in-straw cryoprotectant dilution of vitrified in …

In vitro development of vitrified buffalo oocytes following parthenogenetic activation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection

YY Liang, T Phermthai, T Nagai, T Somfai, R Parnpai - Theriogenology, 2011 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to investigate the potential of swamp buffalo oocytes vitrified-
warmed at the metaphase of the second meiotic cell division (M-II) stage to develop to the …

Cryobiological properties of immature zebrafish oocytes assessed by their ability to be fertilized and develop into hatching embryos

S Seki, T Kouya, R Tsuchiya, DM Valdez Jr, B Jin… - Cryobiology, 2011 - Elsevier
As a step to develop a cryopreservation method for zebrafish oocytes, we investigated the
cryobiological properties of immature oocytes at stage III by examining their ability to mature …

Vitrification of in vitro mature alpaca oocyte: effect of ethylene glycol concentration and time of exposure in the equilibration and vitrification solutions

J Ruiz, L Landeo, J Mendoza, M Artica… - Animal reproduction …, 2013 - Elsevier
The effect of different ethylene glycol concentrations, times of exposure and vitrification
procedure on viability, cleavage and blastocyst rate of in vitro matured alpaca oocytes …

[PDF][PDF] Effects of vitrification of partially denuded bovine immature oocytes.

K Papis, M Shimizu, S Saha, Y Izaike, JA Modliński - 2013 - researchgate.net
In spite of many trials on bovine oocyte cryopreservation, their efficiency remains
unsatisfactory, regardless of method used. Although a births of about 15 calves obtained …