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KMID : 0900919980220020171
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Korean journal of Animal Reproduction
1998 Volume.22 No. 2 p.171 ~ p.176
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Study on the Usability of Vitrified Mouse Hatched Blastocysts in Embryo Transfer
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Kim Eun-Young
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Abstract
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This study was carried out to confirm whether the in vivo developmental potential of mouse hatched blastocysts (HBs) can be obtained by vitrification method using the cryoprotectant EFS35. The HBs (theta 130mutextrm{m}) were cultured in vitro until day 5 from zygotes produced in vivo and were equilibrated in 10% ethylene glycol(EG) for 5 min, and then were exposed or vitrified in EFS35 (35% EG, 18% Ficoll and 0.3M sucrose). After 30 min thawing, re-expanding HBs were transferred into one or both uterine horns of pseudopregnant recipients on day 3 (4~6 embryos /horn). Pregnancy rates of recipients and implantation were assessed by autopsy on day 15 of gestation. The results obtained in these experiments were summarized as follows : After thaw-ing, in vitro survival of HBs was not significantly different between exposed (65.5%) and vitrified(54.5%) group. Also, when the in vivo development potential was examined, total implantation was not different between control (58.5% ) and vitrified (41.0%) group, although the live fetus formation of vitrified group (24.0%) was significantly lower than that of control (58.3%) group (p< 0.05). These results suggested that vitrification freezing method of mouse HBs using EFS35 can be used to make wide the utility of embryo transfer of the more embryos produced in vitro.
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KEYWORD
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Mouse, Hatched blastocysts, EFS35, In vitro development
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