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Cryopreservation of embryos of farm animals.

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Massip, Alban [UCL]

This review contains two parts. The first part is devoted to the significant steps in cryopreservation of mammalian embryos with emphasis on cattle and sheep that serve as models of reference. These steps are: (1) shortening of cooling and warming processes; (2) addition and dilution of cryoprotectant in one step; (3) introduction of plastic straw as a freezing and dilution container; (4) the choice of ethylene glycol as the quite universal cryoprotectant because of its low toxicity and high permeability; (5) vitrification, a cryopreservation method which enable passage from the liquid to the solid state by extreme elevation of viscosity due to high concentration of cryoprotectants and very rapid cooling. There are several vitrification solutions which contain dimethyl sulphoxide, glycerol, ethylene glycol, or a mixture of them, as basic cryoprotectants. The second part considers some factors affecting the efficiency of cryopreservation concerning (i) the origin of embryos and (ii) the stage of development and species. The origin of embryos (in vivo versus in vitro): in vitro embryos show a chilling and freezing sensitivity associated with their lipid content which can be modified by the culture conditions. Both conventional freezing and vitrification have been used and it seems that vitrification is more adapted to in vitro embryos when some modifications of initial protocols are carried out, particularly the rate of cooling. Thus considerable progress has been achieved by using the open pulled straw method of Vajta which enables the use of a minimum volume of freezing medium (0.5 microl) and a very high cooling rate that permits rapid traversal of the damaging temperature zone, corresponding to chilling sensitivity. The stage of development and species: not only are there differences between species at the same stage of development but in the same species all stages of development do not survive equally under the same freezing protocol. In cattle for example, oocytes and early stages of development in vivo or in vitro do not survive whereas compacted morulae and blastocysts survive very well. In the pig hatched blastocysts survive better than the other stages. Horse embryos have special characteristics that pose problems for successful freezing. In conclusion, a lot of work remains to be done to define fundamental characteristics of embryos of certain species (pig, horse) and of embryos of some stages or of oocytes.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Journal Article, Review
Publication date 2001
Journal information "Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene" - Vol. 36, no. 2, p. 49-55 (2001)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0936-6768
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SC/BIOL - Département de biologie
MESH Subject Animals ; Animals, Domestic - embryology ; Cattle - embryology ; Cryopreservation - methods - veterinary ; Cryoprotective Agents ; Goats - embryology ; Horses - embryology ; Sheep - embryology ; Swine - embryology
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Bibliographic reference Massip, Alban. Cryopreservation of embryos of farm animals.. In: Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene, Vol. 36, no. 2, p. 49-55 (2001)
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