The freezing of mammalian embryos / sponsored by the Ciba Foundation.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Conference Name:

Symposium on the Freezing of Mammalian Embryos (1977 : London, England)

Series:

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 52.

Ciba Foundation symposium (new series) ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mammals--Embryology--Congresses.

Mammals.

Cryobiology--Congresses.

Cryobiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 330 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Elsevier/Excerpta Medica/North-Holland ; New York : Elsevier North-Holland, 1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.

Contents:

The Freezing of Mammalian Embryos; Contents; Introduction; The freezing of mammalian embryos: perspectives and possibilities; Discussion; Slow-freezing injury in mammalian cells; Discussion; Effects of interactions between cooling and rewarming conditions on survival of cells; Discussion; Fundamental cryobiology of mouse ova and embryos; Discussion; Some factors affecting embryo storage in laboratory animals; Discussion; Transport mechanisms in the preimplantation mammalian embryo; Discussion; The effect of temperature on the lateral diffusion of plasma membrane proteins; Discussion

Factors affecting the survival of sheep embryos during deep-freezing and thawing Appendix; Transplantation of sheep and cattle embryos after storage at -196° c ( S . M. WILLADSEN, C. POLGE, A. 0. TROUNSON and L. E. A; Discussion; Frozen storage of embryos of farm animals: progress and implications; Discussion; General discussion; Freezing techniques for embryos; Ultra structural developmental changes; Freezing of advanced blastocysts of the cow; Freezing of pancreatic cells; The relevance of the frozen storage of human embryos in clinical practice; Discussion

Genetic stability in cellular systems in the frozen state Discussion; Long-term storage of frozen mouse embryos under increased background irradiation; Discussion; Genetic drift: the problem and its possible solution by frozen-embryo storage; Discussion; A mouse geneticist's impatient waiting for the arrival of embryo-freezing techniques; Discussion; Final general discussion; Index of contributors; Subject index

Notes:

"Symposium on the Freezing of Mammalian Embryos, held at The Ciba Foundation, London, 18th-20th January 1977"--Participants page.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613694034

9781280783647

1280783648

9780470720332

0470720336

9780470718025

0470718021

OCLC:

797918391