TABLE 3.

Cleavage rates of embryos produced after in vitro fertilization of oocytes exposed to different concentration of DES during in vitro maturation.

	Experimental group
			Control	0.01% DMSO	10–9 M	10–7 M	10–5 M
Cleavage	Uncleaved	Count*	58	64	82	74	88
		%	21 a	23 a,b	29 a,b	26 a,b	32 a
	≤8-cell	Count*	103	114	85	104	114
		%	37 a,b	40 a	30 b	37 a,b	41 a
	>8-cell	Count*	116	104	116	103	73
		%	42 b	37 a,b	41 b	37 a,b	27 a

*Total count of three independent experiments (Supplementary Table S1).

^a,bValues in the same row without a common superscript letter are statistically significantly different (p < 0.05).