Skip to main content
. 2015 Sep 27;61(6):571–579. doi: 10.1262/jrd.2015-089

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)
(% 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).