Table 6. Survival after warming and IVM and subsequent in vitro embryo development after IVF of immature cumulus-enclosed oocytes vitrified by different equilibration regimens.
Treatment | CPA treatment regimen |
CPA | Total | Live* (% total) | Cleaved embryos (% live) | Blastocysts (day 6) |
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(% live) | (% cleaved) | (% total) | ||||||
Control | - | - | 310 | 307 | 194 | 62 | ||
(99.0 ± 0.5)a | (63.4 ± 4.6)a | (20.3 ± 2.0)a | (32.0 ± 2.2)a | (20.1 ± 1.9)a | ||||
Vitrified | Regimen A | EG + PG | 368 | 304 | 73 | 10 | ||
(82.5 ± 4.6)b | (24.0 ± 4.5)b | (3.2 ± 0.1)b | (13.6 ± 0.9)b | (2.7 ± 0.2)b | ||||
Vitrified | Regimen B | EG + PG | 363 | 80 | 7 | 0 | ||
(22.4 ± 4.3)c | (7.6 ± 3.8)c | (0 ± 0)c | (0 ± 0)c | (0 ± 0)c | ||||
Vitrified | Regimen B | EG + DMSO | 350 | 92 | 29 | 3 | ||
(26.6 ± 4.5)c | (31.5 ± 1.6)b | (2.8 ± 1.6)b | (9.4 ± 5.8)b | (0.9 ± 0.5)c |
Three replications were performed. Data are presented as mean ± SEM values. * After IVF, all live oocytes were subsequently cultured for 6 days (day 0 = IVF). a, b, c Percentages with different letters in the same column differ significantly (P < 0.05). Regimen A = equilibration in a total of 4% (v/v) CPA for 15 min followed by a brief (approx. 40 sec) washing and vitrification in 35% (v/v) CPA. Regimen B = equilibration in a total of 15% (v/v) CPA for 5 min followed by a brief (approx. 40 sec) washing and vitrification in 35% (v/v) CPA. EG + PG = ethylene glycol + propylene glycol (1:1). EG + DMSO = ethylene glycol + dimethyl sulfoxide (1:1).