Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 371-379 , March 2010

Prediction of in-vitro developmental competence of early cleavage-stage mouse embryos with compact time-lapse equipment

  • Csaba Pribenszky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, István u. 2, Budapest 1078, Hungary
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Eszter Losonczi

      Affiliations

    • ARTechnic Co. Research and Development, Csapó u. 13, Debrecen, Hungary
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  • Miklós Molnár

      Affiliations

    • ARTechnic Co. Research and Development, Csapó u. 13, Debrecen, Hungary
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  • Zsolt Lang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Szent István University, István u. 2, Budapest 1078, Hungary
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  • Szabolcs Mátyás

      Affiliations

    • Department of Embryology, KAÁLI Institute, Istenhegyi út 54/A, Budapest 1125, Hungary
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  • Klára Rajczy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Embryology, KAÁLI Institute, Istenhegyi út 54/A, Budapest 1125, Hungary
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  • Katalin Molnár

      Affiliations

    • Department of Embryology, KAÁLI Institute, Istenhegyi út 54/A, Budapest 1125, Hungary
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  • Péter Kovács

      Affiliations

    • Department of Embryology, KAÁLI Institute, Istenhegyi út 54/A, Budapest 1125, Hungary
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  • Péter Nagy

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronics Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
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  • Jason Conceicao

      Affiliations

    • PIVET Medical Centre, 166–168 Cambridge St., Perth, WA, Australia
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  • Gábor Vajta

      Affiliations

    • Cairns Fertility Centre, 58–60 McLeod St., Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia

Received 6 July 2009 ,Revised 3 August 2009 ,Accepted 26 November 2009.

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 Csaba Pribenszky obtained a DVM degree (1998) and a PhD degree (2005) in the field of assisted reproductive technologies in Budapest, Hungary. Together with Mikos Molnar, he developed and patented the concept of ‘stress for stress tolerance’, utilizing sub-lethal hydrostatic pressure stress treatment to gametes, embryos, other cells and tissues in order to improve cell survival during subsequent procedures (e.g. cryopreservation, SCNT). His current focus is the application of the above method to human oocyte vitrification and the effect of different environmental factors on in-vitro embryo developmental dynamics and embryo fragmentation.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00284-3

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.007

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 371-379 , March 2010

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