Sentence examples for quality oocytes from inspiring English sources
Good and fair quality oocytes produced a higher cleavage rate (P<0.01) than poor quality oocytes.
Embryo development with poor quality oocytes was arrested at the two to sixteen cell stage.
Morula production rate was also higher (P<0.01) for good as compared with fair quality oocytes.
However there was no decrease recorded in the meiotic division resumption rate and the proportion of good quality oocytes.
A critical stage in the optimization of in vitro maturation (IVM) is the selection of good quality oocytes.
In experiment 2, good quality oocytes were cultured for maturation in: (1) CR1aa; (2) CR2aa; (3) TCM-199; (4) MEM or (5) RPMI-1640, and then fertilized using frozen thawed buffalo spermatozoa in CR1aa.
Currently, there is no uniformly accepted definition of decreased ovarian reserve (DOR), as the term may refer to three related but distinctly different outcomes: oocyte quality, oocyte quantity, or reproductive potential.
In addition to the morphological criteria, several molecular and biochemical (from metabolomics) markers have been described helping to define a "good quality" oocyte.
Significant correlations were observed in the luteal phase between the total number of oocytes and cholesterol (Cho), HDL, sodium (Na), chloride (Cl); A-quality oocytes and Na, Cl, Mg; C-quality oocytes and Cho, HDL, and Mg in follicular fluid.
In a preliminary, unpublished randomized study conducted in 2000 on 39 patients, including a placebo group, it was observed that the addition of growth hormone (GH) during ovarian stimulation in patients with poor-quality oocytes increased the pregnancy rate.
Furthermore, no significant difference was observed between the groups in the number of good-quality oocytes, leading follicles, good-quality embryos, or in fertilization, implantation, positive beta-HCG and clinical pregnancy rates.
