• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.129-134
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• 1998

The objective of this study was to test whether the developmental capacity of human multi-pronuclear (PN) zygotes after ultra-rapid freezing using EM grid can be maintained. For this experiment, multi-PN zygotes which produced in human IVF program were used as an alternatives of normal 2PN zygotes, and they were separated into 3PN or $\geq4PN$ zygotes to compare their in vitro development and cryoinjury according to PN number. As freezing solution, EFS30 which consisted of 30% ethylene glycol, 18% bcoll, 0.5 M sucrose and 10% FBS added D-PBS was used. The result obtained in this experiment was summarized as follows; When the multi..PN zygotes were ultrarapidly frozen and thawed, the high mean percentages (85.5%) were survived. Also when the cleavage rates between control and freezing group were compared with PN number, there were not significantly different in each group (3PN; 81.3% & 85.4% and $\geq4PN$; 90.0% & 95.7%). When the in vitro development rates after thawing were examined, freezing 3PN group (22.0%) was not differed to control 3PN group (38.5%), although the development result of freezing $\geq4PN$ group (45%) was significantly lower than that of control $\geq4PN$ group (44.4%) (p<0.05). These results demonstrate that developmental capacity of human zygote can be obtained by ultra-rapid freezing method using EM grid and EFS30.