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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 31.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Reprod. 2001 Dec;65(6):1648–1654. doi: 10.1095/biolreprod65.6.1648

TABLE 2.

Effect of phosphate on morula/blastocyst (M/B) mean cell number and allocation (± SEM) of embryos cultured from the 2-cell stage.*

Concentration
Pi (µM)
in HECM-10		 Total mean
M/B cell
number		 Mean TE
cell number		 Mean ICM
cell number		 Mean ICM %
of total cells
0.0 31.8 ± 1.6a 18.4 ± 1.1a 13.4 ± 1.0a 42.9 ± 2.7ab
1.25 26.4 ± 1.4b 13.8 ± 1.0b 12.6 ± 0.9a 47.1 ± 2.3a
2.5 17.0 ± 2.8c 11.0 ± 2.0c 6.0 ± 1.8b 32.5 ± 4.8b
*

Values within a column with different superscript letters are significantly different (P < 0.01).