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Table 4 Dephosphorylated IGFBP-1/IGF-1 complex increases the total cell number of cultured blastocysts.

From: IGF-1/IGFBP-1 increases blastocyst formation and total blastocyst cell number in mouse embryo culture and facilitates the establishment of a stem-cell line

Culture Medium

No of zygotes

No. of blastocysts tested

Total cell number of blastocysts

kSOM/AA with IGFBP-1/IGF-1

38

15

87.6 ± 5.3 *

kSOM/AA without IGFBP-1 /IGF-1

45

18

73.7 ± 7.1 *

  1. The results were pooled from 3 repeats of experiments. * P < 0.01