Collection and Cryopreservation of Hamster Oocytes and Mouse EmbryosNuno Costa-Borges 1, Sheyla González 1, Elena Ibáñez 1, Josep Santaló 1
1Unitat Biologia Cellular (Facultat de Biociències), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
In this video-article we present a step-by-step demonstration on how to collect and cryopreserve hamster oocytes with high post-thaw survival rates. The same procedure can also be applied to successfully freeze and thaw mouse embryos at different stages of preimplantation development.
