Table 5.
The effect of adding glucose to medium containing pyruvate at optimum concentration
| Treatment | Glucose concentration (mg/ml) | Experiment 1 Response
|
Experiment 2 Response
|
Mean angular response | Response (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drop number | Drop number | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 24·68 | 18·75 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 27·16 | 21·88 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 22·28 | 14·58 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 21·93 | 14·58 |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 31·48 | 28·13 |
| 6 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 21·38 | 14·58 |
Response is the number of normal blastocysts from twelve 2-cell ova after 3 days cultivation in vitro. Two-cell ova obtained 43 hr after HCG injection.
The analysis of variance indicated no significant treatment effect.