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. 2018 Apr 10;35(5):825–840. doi: 10.1007/s10815-018-1174-9

Table 2.

Chromatin stage of oocytes that were uninjected, or at 0, 6, or 18 h after conventional or Piezo ICSI or sham injection.

Treatment Time period n Oocyte stage n (%)
MII AII-TII PNE PNM PNL MIT
Uninjected 0H 11 11 (100.0)
18H 21 21 (100.0)c
Conventional 0H 17 16 (94.1) 1 (5.9)
6H 20 16 (80.0)a 3 (15.0) 1 (5.0)
18H 25 2 (8.0)d 4 (16.0) 3 (12.0) 8 (32.0) 5 (20.0) 3 (12.0)
Piezo 0H 16 16 (100.0)
6H 21 2 (9.5)b 13 (61.9) 4 (19.1) 2 (9.5)
18H 24 3 (12.5)d 3 (12.5) 1 (4.2) 2 (8.3) 11 (45.8) 4 (16.7)
Sham-Conv 0H 12 11 (91.7) 1 (8.3)
6H 14 13 (92.9)a 1 (7.1)
18H 13 13 (100.0)c
Sham-Piezo 0H 13 13 (100.0)
6H 13 13 (100.0)a
18H 13 11 (84.6)c 2 (15.4)

Within time period (a,b6H, c,d18H) proportions of oocytes at MII with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.0001). There were no significant differences at 0H

MII metaphase II, AII-TII anaphase II to telophase II, PNE early pronucleus, PNM mid pronucleus, PNL late pronucleus, MIT first mitosis