Table 3 NHP Zygotes Do Not Initiate or Progress the Cleavage Furrow through the ICSI Microinjection Point (MIP).

From: Fertilization and Cleavage Axes Differ In Primates Conceived By Conventional (IVF) Versus Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)

Sperm MIP/Cortical Pronuclear Orientation to A → V axis

Total Zygotes Scored

Cleavage Furrow Initiation and Progress in relation to the MIP site marked by a Fluorescent Bead

initiation at the MIP (%)

progression through the MIP (%)

both initiation and progression through the MIP (%)

Neither initiation or progression through the MIP (%)

Cortical/radial

7

0

1/7 (14)

1/7 (14)

5/7 (71)

Cortical/para-tangential

7

0

2/7 (29)

1/7 (14)

4/7 (57)