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In Vitro Culture Strategy for Oocytes from Early Antral Follicle in Cattle
Published on: July 8, 2020
Experience with intravaginal culture for in vitro fertilization (IVF)
A L Costoya1, C M Cafatti, A A Gadán
1Instituto de Medicina de la Reproducción, Departamento 54, Santiago, Chile.
Abstract:
It has been reported that intravaginal culture (IVC) yields results comparable to those obtained with classic IVF techniques; furthermore, it can simplify and reduce the costs of the procedure. In our experience with IVC however, only 8 of 78 mature oocytes inseminated (10.2%) fertilized. Possible causes of this low fertilization rate were analyzed. In our opinion this new and attractive technique needs further evaluation before being extended to common clinical practice.

