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OVOIL™ - CULTURE OIL - EQUIPMED - Tecnología de Vanguardia al Servicio Médico

OVOIL™ - CULTURE OIL

Reference: 10029. 100mL.

OVOIL is 100% paraffin oil produced in a highly controlled process from extensively tested LOTs of raw materials. The combination of product integrity and testing secures your results and enhances control of your culture system. 
 
The importance of oil for IVF outcome:
Most clinics today use oil to cover embryo culture dishes in order to maintain stable temperature, osmolality and pH. The quality of such oil plays a very important role for IVF success. The oil types commonly used are mineral oil, paraffin oil or a mixture of both these oil types. This blog post lets you know the characteristics of the perfect oil for IVF. 
 
Paraffin oil and mineral oil are chemically slightly different. The polycarbon lipid tail of mineral oil contains more unsaturated bonds than the more saturated paraffin oil. This makes mineral oil more unstable and prone to attack by free oxygen radicals and photo-oxidation than paraffin oil. 
 
Paraffin oil gives better development:
In a study by Tae et al.1 bovine embryo development was studied in cultures overlaid with either washed mineral or sterile paraffin oil, Fig 1. Sterile filtered paraffin oil overlay resulted in significantly higher (p < 0.05) development rate to morula (44.8% versus 30.6%) and blastocyst (32.8% versus 21.7%) than washed mineral oil.
 
Purpose For covering of medium during in vitro fertilisation and micromanipulation procedures.
Description Sterile light paraffin oil.
Application Ready-to-use after pre-equilibration at +37°C and 5 % CO2, 6 % CO2 or ambient atmosphere, depending on the intended use.
Storage Store dark at +2 to +8°C.
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