Egg freezing, or oocyte cryopreservation, allows women to preserve fertility by extracting and freezing unfertilized eggs.

Egg freezing, also known as oocyte cryopreservation or vitrification, is the process of taking one or more eggs out of your ovaries and storing them at very low temperatures for use in the future.

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Oocyte cryopreservation is a suitable fertility preservation option for women who are not partnered, have ethical objections to cryopreserving embryos or wish to have complete reproductive autonomy.

The number of primary oocytes (primordial follicle) peaks at the 5 months of gestational life with several million of primary oocytes. From this moment there is a progressive decline. At puberty ...

Embryo cryopreservation is a well-established method of fertility preservation. Success rates (the rates of having a live birth) are largely dependent on the age at which a woman undergoes oocyte ...

Bovine oocytes are extremely sensitive to chilling damage, and few reports have demonstrated success following cryopreservation. In vitro matured bovine MII oocytes were successfully vitrified ...