TABLE 4.
Cleavage rates of embryos exposed for 8 days to different concentrations of DES during in vitro embryo culture.
| Experimental group | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 0.01% DMSO | 10–9 M | 10–7 M | 10–5 M | |||
| Cleavage | Uncleaved | Count* | 47 | 45 | 43 | 50 | 31 |
| % | 20 a | 19 a | 18 a | 21 a | 14 a | ||
| ≤8-cell | Count* | 106 | 99 | 97 | 86 | 102 | |
| % | 44 a | 41 a | 40 a | 36 a | 44 a | ||
| >8-cell | Count* | 87 | 95 | 100 | 104 | 97 | |
| % | 36 a | 40 a | 42 a | 43 a | 42 a |
Total count of three independent experiments (Supplementary Table S1).
Values within the same row with the same superscript letter are not significantly different.