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P-446 DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SUPPLEMENTATION MAY
IMPROVE OVULATION RATES BUT NOT OOCYTE QUALITY.
P. T. Jimenez, A. I. Frolova, M. M. Chi, K. H. Moley. Obstetrics &
Gynecology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
P-447 pCDC2 (Y15) EXPRESSION DURING OOCYTE
MATURATION- IMPLICATIONS IN FERTILIZATION FAILURE AFTER
ICSI.
C. Alvarez Sedó, H. Uriondo, M. Lavolpe, F. Noblia, M. Baronio,
F. Nodar. Centro de Estudios en Ginecología y Reproducción
(CEGyR), Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
P-448 EVALUATION OF HUMAN OOCYTES AGEING BY
FOCAL PLANE ARRAY (FPA) FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED
(FT-IR) IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY.
G. Gioacchini 1,2 , O. Carnevali 2 , E. Giorgini 3 , L. Vaccari 4 , V. Bianchi 1 ,
A. Borini 1 . 1 Tecnobios Procreazione, Centre for Reproductive Health,
Bologna, Italy; 2 Scienze del Mare, Università Politecnica delle
Marche, Ancona, Italy; 3 Dipartimento di Idraulica, Strade, Ambiente
e Chimica ISAC, Sezione Chimica, Università Politecnica delle
Marche, Ancona, Italy; 4 SISSI Beamline, ELETTRA Synchrotron Light
Laboratory, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy.
P-449 IMPAIRED DNA REPAIR AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF
OOCYTE AGING.
K. Oktay 1,2 , E. Heytens 1 , R. Soleimani 1 , V. Baltaci 3 , S. Goswami 4 .
1 Institute for Fertility Preservation, Obstetrics & Gynecology, New York
Medical College, Valhalla, NY; 2 Cell Biology & Anatomy, New York
Medical College, New York, NY; 3 Department of Human Genetics,
Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, TR, Turkey; 4 Department of Biology,
Yeshiva University, New York, NY.
P-450 ROLE OF MELATONIN IN PREVENTING
HYPOCHLOROUS ACID INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN
MICROTUBULE AND CHROMOSOMAL STRUCTURE IN
METAPHASE-II MOUSE OOCYTES IN VITRO.
J. Banerjee, D. Maitra, F. Shaeib, G. M. Saed, M. P. Diamond, H.
Abu-Soud. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive
Endocrinology and Infertility, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
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OOCYTE MATURATION
P-451 IVM FOR WOMEN WITH POLYCYSTIC OVARIES? A
CASE-CONTROL STUDY.
T. J. Child, J. Craig, K. Turner, E. McVeigh, M. Fatum, A.-S. Gremeau.
Oxford Fertility Unit, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
P-452 EFFECTS OF ANDROGEN SUBSTRATE ON BOVINE
CUMULUS-OOCYTE COMPLEXES STEROIDOGENESIS DURING IN
VITRO MATURATION.
A. C. J. S. Rosa-e-Silva, D. L. Bulgarelli, A. A. Vireque, C. P. Pitangui,
M. P. Bernuci, M. F. Silva-de-Sá. Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty
of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto - University of São Paulo, Ribeirão
Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
P-453 IDENTIFICATION OF GENE EXPRESSION OF MYH11
AND PF4V1 IN CUMULUS CELLS (CC) AFTER OVARIAN
STIMULATION BY MICROARRAYS TECHNOLOGY: POSSIBLE
IMPLICATIONS ON OOCYTE MATURATION.
V. García-Láez 1 , D. Beltrán 1 , J. M. De los Santos 1 , F. J. Esteban 2 ,
J. A. Martínez-Conejero 3 , M. J. De los Santos 1 . 1 FIV, IVI Valencia
and INCLIVA, Valencia, Spain; 2 Universidad de Jaen, Jaen, Spain;
3 Igenomix, Valencia, Spain.
P-454 DETECTION OF THE EXPRESSION OF ALDEHYDE
DESHYDROGENASE 1A2 (ALDH1A2) IN CUMULUS CELLS (CC)
BY DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS
FOR MATURATION.
V. García-Láez 1 , D. Beltrán 1 , C. Albert 1 , J. A. Horcajadas 2 , F. J.
Esteban 3 , M. J. De los Santos 1 . 1 FIV, IVI Valencia and INCLIVA,
Valencia, Spain; 2 Igenomix, Paterna, Valencia, Spain; 3 Universidad
de Jaen, Jaen, Spain.
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P-455 THE EFFECT OF 5 DAYS EXTENDED EXPOSURE OF
IMMATURE BOVINE OOCYTES TO A COMBINATION OF
MATURATION INHIBITORS ON THE IN VITRO MATURATION (IVM)
OUTCOME.
T. A. Farghaly1,2 , S. A. Mostafa2 , E. M. Khalifa2 , M. A. Bedaiwy1 , J.
Goldfarb1 , A. Ahmady1 . 1MacDonald Fertility & IVF Center, UH Case
Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; 2Obstetrics and Gynecology,
Womens’ Health Center,Assiut Universty, Assiut, Egypt.
P-456 A MODIFIED PROTOCOL FOR IN VITRO MATURATION
OF MOUSE OOCYTES FROM SECONDARY PREANTRAL
FOLLICLES.
Y. Tang, W. Wang, L. Ni, H.-C. Liu. Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia
Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical
College, New York, NY.
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OXIDATIVE STRESS
P-457 ANALYSIS OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN SEMEN
PARAMETERS AND THE LEVELS OF RETINOL, TOCOPHEROL AND
CAROTENOIDS IN HUMAN SEMINAL PLASMA AND BLOOD.
S. Palini1 , S. De Stefani1 , S. Dott. Benedetti2 , D. C. Bulletti1 , F.
Canestrari2 . 1Cervesi Hospital, Cattolica, Rimini, Italy; 2Università di
Urbino, Urbino, Pesaro-urbino, Italy.
P-458 THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREGNANCY AND
OXIDATIVE STRESS MARKERS ON PATIENTS UNDERGOING IVF/
IUI.
A. Younis1 , C. Clower1 , D. Nelsen1 , W. Butler1 , M. Garelnabi2 .
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mercer University
School of Medicine, Macon, GA; 2Dept of Clin Lab and Nutritional
Sci, School of Health and Environment, Lowell, MA.
P-459 CAN ANTIOXIDANTS SUPPLEMENTATION IMPROVE
ICSI/IVF OUTCOMES IN WOMEN UNDERGOING IVF/ICSI
TREATMENT CYCLES? RANDOMISED CONTROLLED STUDY.
I. Aboulfoutouh, M. Youssef, S. Khattab. Egyptian International
Fertility IVF Center (EIFC-IVF), Cairo, Egypt.
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FERTILIZATION
P-460 PHENOTYPIC OUTCOMES OF TRIPRONUCLEAR (3PN)
ZYGOTES RESULTING FROM INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM
INJECTION (ICSI) VS. CONVENTIONAL INSEMINATION (INSEM)
USING TIME-LAPSE MICROSCOPY (TLM).
R. S. Weinerman1 , M. E. Fino1 , Y. Kramer1 , K. Gunsalus2 , C. McCaffrey1 ,
N. Noyes1 . 1NYU Fertility Center, New York University School of
Medicine, New York, NY; 2Center for Genomics and Systems Biology,
New York University, New York, NY.
P-461 DETERMINATION OF OOCYTE MATURATION
BY BIREFRINGENT IMAGING (BI): ONE STEP CLOSER TO
EFFECTIVELY CHOOSING THE BEST EMBRYO FOR TRANSFER IN
WOMEN UNDERGOING IVF-ICSI.
C. Mullin, K. Melzer, L. Lu, J. Lee, P. LaBella, N. Noyes. NYU Fertility
Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.
P-462 RECOMBINANT HUMAN PHOSPHOLIPASE C ZETA 1
AS BIOLOGICAL SOLUTION IN ARTIFICIAL EGG ACTIVATION
INDUCES INTRACELLULAR CALCIUM OSCILLATIONS AND EGG
ACTIVATION IN MOUSE AND HUMAN EGGS.
S.-Y. Yoon, Y. S. Kim, J. E. Han, W. S. Lee, D. R. Lee, T. K. Yoon. Fertility
Center of CHA Gangnam Medical Center, CHA University, Seoul,
Korea.
P-463 ABNORMAL SPERM GUIDANCE IN C. ELEGANS TGF-ß
SMAD MUTANTS.
K. K. McKnight 1 , M. A. Miller 2 . 1 Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of
Reproductive Endocrinology, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL; 2 Cell Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, AL.
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