Vitrification: an alternative for preserving embryos and genetic material mammalian females in cryobanking

Authors

  • Adeline Andrade Carvalho Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • Luciana Rocha Faustino Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • José Ricardo de Figueiredo Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • Ana Paula Ribeiro Rodrigues Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • Amilton Paulo Raposo Costa Universidade Federal do Piauí

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21708/avb.2011.5.3.2321

Abstract

Vitrification is a cryopreservation method’s cheap, fast and easy to perform and has been used, with relatively success, for the preservation of embryos and oocytes from preantral and antral follicles. The present review describes the different methods of vitrification, the main results obtained so far as well as its important for the assisted reproduction technologies in human, genetic superior animal and endangered mammalian species. Keywords: Blastocyst, oocyte, preantral follicle, cryopreservation.

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Author Biography

Adeline Andrade Carvalho, Universidade Estadual do Ceará

Médica Veterinária formada em 2008 pela Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI). Mestre em ciência animal pela Universidade Federal do Piauí (2010). Atualmente, doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em ciências Veterinárias da Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE)

Published

2012-01-26

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Reviews / Revisões Bibliográficas

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