Publications
Bovine embryo culture in the modified well of the well system increases blastocyst rate but lowers blastocyst quality Ghent University
Reduced blastocyst formation in reduced culture volume Vrije Universiteit Brussel
PURPOSE: The aim of this prospective sibling oocyte study was to evaluate whether reduced culture volume improves blastocyst formation.
METHODS: Twenty-three patients with extended embryo culture until day 5 were selected for the study. After injection, 345 sibling oocytes were individually cultured in either 25 or 7 μl droplets of Origio cleavage medium under oil. On day 3 of development, embryos were transferred to droplets with the ...
Follicular fluid supplementation during bovine oocyte maturation in vitro improves blastocyst development and quality in an individual culture system Ghent University
Prevalence of membrane-damaged cells in bovine embryos after culture to the blastocyst stage in defined medium Ghent University
Lycopene supplementation to serum-free embryo culture medium and its effect on development and quality of bovine blastocysts produced in vitro Ghent University University of Antwerp
The loss of imprinted DNA methylation in mouse blastocysts is inflicted to a similar extent by in vitro follicle culture and ovulation induction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
STUDY HYPOTHESIS: Does in vitro follicle culture (IFC) have an effect on maintenance of imprinted DNA methylation in preimplantation mouse embryos?
STUDY FINDING: We report similar alterations in the methylation pattern of H19 imprinted maternally expressed transcript (H19), small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N (Snrpn) and mesoderm specific transcript (Mest) imprinted genes in mouse blastocysts obtained after ovulation ...