Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 920-924 , March 2009

Blastocyst rate and live births from vitrification and slow-cooled two-cell mouse embryos

  • Jennifer E. Graves-Herring, M.S.
    • ,
  • William R. Boone, Ph.D.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: William R. Boone, Ph.D., University Medical Group, Greenville Hospital System, 890 W. Faris Road, Suite 470, Greenville, South Carolina, 29605 (FAX: 864-455-8492).

Received 22 June 2007 ,Revised 11 December 2007 ,Accepted 11 December 2007.

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 There is no conflict of interest, financial or otherwise, for either of the submitting authors.

 Funding was provided by Greenville Hospital System University Medical Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproduction Endocrinology and Infertility, Greenville, South Carolina.

PII: S0015-0282(07)04329-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.045

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 920-924 , March 2009

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