The freezing of mammalian embryos / / sponsored by the Ciba Foundation

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144659603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland; New York, : Elsevier North-Holland, 1977
• ISBN: 1-280-78364-8; 9786613694034; 0-470-72033-6; 0-470-71802-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Ciba Foundation symposium (new series) ; ; 52
• Disciplina: 599/.03/3028
• Soggetti: Mammals - Embryology; Cryobiology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Symposium on the Freezing of Mammalian Embryos, held at The Ciba Foundation, London, 18th-20th January 1977"--Participants page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The Freezing of Mammalian Embryos; Contents; Introduction; The freezing of mammalian embryos: perspectives and possibilities; Discussion; Slow-freezing injury in mammalian cells; Discussion; Effects of interactions between cooling and rewarming conditions on survival of cells; Discussion; Fundamental cryobiology of mouse ova and embryos; Discussion; Some factors affecting embryo storage in laboratory animals; Discussion; Transport mechanisms in the preimplantation mammalian embryo; Discussion; The effect of temperature on the lateral diffusion of plasma membrane proteins; Discussion; Factors affecting the survival of sheep embryos during deep-freezing and thawing Appendix; Transplantation of sheep and cattle embryos after storage at -196° c ( S . M. WILLADSEN, C. POLGE, A. 0. TROUNSON and L. E. A; Discussion; Frozen storage of embryos of farm animals: progress and implications; Discussion; General discussion; Freezing techniques for embryos; Ultra structural developmental changes; Freezing of advanced blastocysts of the cow; Freezing of pancreatic ; cells; The relevance of the frozen storage of human embryos in clinical practice; Discussion; Genetic stability in cellular systems in the frozen state Discussion; Long-term storage of frozen mouse embryos under increased background irradiation; Discussion; Genetic drift: the problem and its possible solution by frozen-embryo storage; Discussion; A mouse geneticist's impatient waiting for the arrival of embryo-freezing techniques; Discussion; Final general discussion; Index of contributors; Subject index