Hiroki Kurosawa, Hiroki Utsunomiya, Naomi Shiga, Aiko Takahashi, Motomasa Ihara, Masumi Ishibashi, Mitsuo Nishimoto, Zen Watanabe, Hiroyuki Abe, Jin Kumagai, Yukihiro Terada, Hideki Igarashi, Toshifumi Takahashi, Atsushi Fukui, Ryota Suganuma, Masahito Tachibana, Nobuo Yaegashi
STUDY QUESTION: Does a new system-the chip-sensing embryo respiration monitoring system (CERMs)-enable evaluation of embryo viability for potential application in a clinical IVF setting? SUMMARY ANSWER: The system enabled the oxygen consumption rate of spheroids, bovine embryos and frozen-thawed human embryos to be measured, and this rate corresponded to the developmental potential of embryos. WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN: To date, no reliable and clinically suitable objective evaluation methods for embryos are available, which circumvent the differences in inter-observer subjective view...
October 2016: Human Reproduction