Transfer at the blastocyst stage has been proposed to increase the pregnancy rates after in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer. In the first period of experiments, culture in a single medium, from fertilization to blastocyst led to disappointing results: low blastocyst formation rates and low implantation rates per blastocyst transferred. Then the period of co-culture began (starting...

BACKGROUND Successful embryo implantation depends on a well-timed maternal-embryonic crosstalk. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) secreted by the embryo is known to play a key role in this process and to trigger a complex signal transduction cascade allowing the apposition, attachment, and invasion of the embryo into the decidualized uterus. Production of hCG was reported to be dependent on bl...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of embryo retention (ER) in the transfer catheter following embryo transfer (ET) in blastocyst transfer and investigate whether retransferring retained embryos has an impact on reproductive outcomes in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization-ET. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the records of 1,131 blastocyst transfers, which comprised 223 single bla...

The pregnancy rate and implantation rate following blastocyst transfer in the human have been reported to be high; however, it has remained necessary to transfer 2-3 blastocysts to achieve these rates. Morphological criteria are currently used to select blastocysts for transfer and have some limited correlation with ongoing viability. Glucose metabolism of 189 human morula to blastocyst stage e...

Objectives: To compare the clinical outcomes of single fresh and frozen-thawed superior blastocyst transfer in patients for the first transfer. Methods: This study included 770 single fresh blastocyst and 639 single frozenthawed blastocyst transfers from January 2013 to January 2016. All the fresh and frozen-thawed embryo transfer was first transfer for the patients. The patients were divided i...

BACKGROUND A trade-off exists between the risk of multiple pregnancy and prospects of pregnancy itself in assisted reproduction. Blastocyst culture and embryo transfer after approximately 5 days may be one method of reconciling this dilemma, although a controversial one. METHODS AND RESULTS We presented a questionnaire to groups of patients, embryologists and clinicians to solicit views on th...

The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of scriptaid (SCR), a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi), on the in vitro and in vivo development of Wuzhishan miniature pig somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) embryos. Experiment 1 compared the in vitro developmental competence of nuclear transfer embryos treated with various concentrations of SCR for 24 h. Embryos treated with 250 n...

These data suggest that the physiologic stress associated with two consecutive freeze-thaw processes is likely minor. Dual freeze-thaw of embryos does not appear to adversely impact delivery rate in IVF; a livebirth delivery rate of 35.7% per transfer was observed in our population.

OBJECTIVE It is well known that fresh blastocyst transfer results in better pregnancy outcomes with a smaller number of transferred embryos compared with cleavage stage embryo transfer. However, in terms of frozen-thawed blastocyst transfer, only a few studies are available. We aimed to evaluate clinical outcomes of frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) with blastocysts. METHODS Retrospective a...