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Day 5 blastocyst pictures from IVF
High quality and low quality blastocyst embryos
Page author Richard Sherbahn MD
Day 5 (or day 6) transfer after in vitro fertilization - blastocyst stage culture and transfer
can maintain high pregnancy rates with very low risk for triplets
Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
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4 blastocysts that were "left over" after the embryo transfer
These 5 day old embryos
were cryopreserved (frozen) for future use
Hatching mouse blastocyst stained with fluorescent dye
Embryo was cultured
on human tubal cells (coculture)
Red-stained cells (trophectoderm) - would
become placenta
Blue-stained cells are inner cell mass - fetal cells
Low quality blastocysts |
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Blastocyst showing poor morphology in cells of both components - the inner cell mass (at 6 to 9 o'clock) and the trophectoderm |
Poor quality day 6 blastocyst Most cells are necrotic (dead and disintegrating) |
- These low quality blastocysts show that blastocyst culture is not a magic bullet for infertility.
- Most human embryos do not have the genetic potential to develop normally to the blastocyst stage, hatch from their shells, implant and continue normal embryonic development in order to result in a live birth.
More blastocyst embryo photos and details about blastocyst grading
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