Embryo Transfer

Question 1

What are the 3 common purposes of embryo transfer ?

Answer 1

1. Produce more than 1 foal in a season from a particular valuable mare
2. Produce foals from mares involved in activities (racing)
3. To produce foals from mares otherwise unable to carry a foal to term successfully

Question 2

Why standard practice have two recipient mares to each donor mare ?

Answer 2

If a mare doesn’t synch correctly you have a backup

Question 3

Goal of estrous synchronization

Answer 3

The recipient mare ovulate on the same day of within 24 hours of the donor mare

Question 4

Is embryo collection a surgical or non-surgical procedure?

Answer 4

Non-surgical

Question 5

2 types of embryo transfer

Answer 5

1. Surgical
2. Non-Surgical

Question 6

How old is the embryo collected

Answer 6

7 days

Question 7

Over all pregnancy rate per cycle is what ?

Answer 7

25-50 %

Question 8

What will a technician wearing a sterile surgical glove over a palpating sleeve introduce?

Answer 8

French Foley catheter

Question 9

Flushing is done with what ?

Answer 9

Gravity Flow

Question 10

What percent of non surgical embryo transfer successful ?

Answer 10

65-70%

Question 11

Surgical embryo transfer yields success rates ____% to ___% higher than that of the non surgical technique

Answer 11

5%-10%

Question 12

What is intracytoplasmic sperm injection ?

Answer 12

Micro injection of a single sperm into the cytoplasm of a mature Oocyte

Question 13

What is the main advantage of ICSI?

Answer 13

Stallion with limited amount of Sperm ?