Integrating insulin into single-step culture medium regulates human embryo development in vitro

Autor: Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, Hazem Abdelghafar, Yasmin Magdi, Mohamed Sabry, Mohamed Fawzy, Mohamed Nour, Eman Roshdy
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Fertility and sterility. 107(2)
ISSN: 1556-5653
Popis: Objective To evaluate the effect of supplementing single-step embryo culture medium with insulin on human embryo development. Design Comparative study. Setting Two private centers. Patient(s) The study involved a sibling oocyte split of 5,142 retrieved oocytes from 360 patients. Intervention(s) Sibling oocytes split after intracytoplasmic sperm injection for culture from day 0 through day 5 or 6 in insulin-supplemented or control medium. Women were split to receive their embryos from insulin-supplemented or control medium. Main Outcome Measure(s) Clinical pregnancy rate. Result(s) There were significantly higher rates of clinical, ongoing, and twin pregnancies in the insulin-supplemented arm than in the control arm. On day 3, embryo quality and compaction were higher in insulin-supplemented medium. On day 5, insulin supplementation showed higher rates of blastocyst formation, quality, and cryopreservation. Conclusion(s) Insulin supplementation of single-step embryo culture medium from day 0 through day 5 or 6 improved clinical pregnancy rate and human embryo development. However, these findings need further confirmation through a multicenter randomized controlled trial that may include other patient populations and different culture media.
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