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Details:An oocyte extruding polar body (white arrow) possessing pseudo polar body (black arrow). Anaphase meiotic spindle visualized with polarized light microscopy. Submitted by: Zuzana Holubcova and Nadezda Janickova |
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Details:Refractile bodies are one of the main morphological abnormalities that can be observed in the cytoplasm of human oocytes. Submitted by: Aamir Javed |
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Details:A Conjoined Oocytes Within One Follicle Have Infrequently Been Practical In Human Assisted Reproduction Thus Indication For The Hypothesis That Some Of The Polyovular Follicles Recognized From Histolo Submitted by: Aamir Javed |
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Details:Sperm DNA compressed into toroids are exposed by acidified Triton X-100 and DTT pre-treatment (Biomed Res Int. 2015;2015:780983). DNA damage (darker color) is revealed following simple staining (Diff- Submitted by: Professor Philip J. Chan |
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Details:Two hatching blastocysts merging into one chimeric blastocyst Submitted by: Eva Grycova and Zuzana Holubcova |
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Details:Implanted mouse embryo (Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2015;291:647) showing a dark central group of cells (inner cell mass or ICM) that becomes the fetus while the surrounding trophoblasts give rise to the pla Submitted by: Professor Philip J. Chan |
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Details:An egg (outlined arrow indicates 1st polar body) with cell fragment (detached additional polar body??) embedded in Zona Pellucida (indicated by filled arrow) Submitted by: Zuzana Holubcová a Darja Němcová |
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Details:Left - stereomicroscope 40x, arrows indicate germinal vesicles. Right - same oocyte fixed and labelled for actin (phalloidin; cyan to white) and DNA (DAPI; maganta), confocal microscope 60x Submitted by: Zuzana Holubcová and Darja Němcová |
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Details:Dual use of Diff-Quik (Hema 3) for both strict morphology and chromatin integrity (Hum Reprod. 2009;24:28) can be improved (J Reprod Med. 2015;60:6) by an immediate post-stain 1-minute soak-in-water s Submitted by: Professor Philip J. Chan |
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Details:Can you tell which image shows polymorphonuclear leukocytes(PMN) and which image shows spermatids? Answer: The left column are PMN leukocytes or white blood cells (WBC). Diff-Quik stain of semen. Ma Submitted by: Professor Philip J. Chan |
