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Table 5 Effects of endometrioma fluid, transferrin, cysteamine and cystine on outcome of mouse IVF

From: Transferrin and antioxidants partly prevented mouse oocyte oxidative damage induced by exposure of cumulus-oocyte complexes to endometrioma fluid

Groups

Cleavage (%)

Blastocyst on day 5 (%)

Total cell number of blastocysts

ICM/total cells of blastocyst (%)

1:Control

82.0 ± 7.2 a

67.4 ± 4.3 a

56.3 ± 5.5 a

0.41 ± 0.04 a

2: Exposure to endometrioma fluid

78.8 ± 9.3 a

40.7 ± 6.9 c

46.9 ± 6.1 b

0.38 ± 0.05 a

3: Exposure to endometrioma fluid +Transferrin

76.7 ± 5.7 a

54.3 ± 5.2 b

57.1 ± 6.7 a

0.42 ± 0.05 a

4: Exposure to endometrioma fluid + Cysteamine and Cystine

81.1 ± 7.6 a

49.2 ± 6.6 b,c

53.8 ± 4.7 a

0.39 ± 0.05 a

  1. Within each column, data with different superscripts are different at p < 0.05. For total cell number counts, each treatment was repeated five times with 10 blastocysts for each time