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Adding Insulin to IVF Culture Media Significantly Improve Outcome

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT02420171
Enrollment
360
Registered
2015-04-17
Start date
2015-01-31
Completion date
2015-12-31
Last updated
2016-07-13

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Infertility

Keywords

In Vitro, embryo quality, Intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Brief summary

Add insulin to a single step culture media for IVF embryo culture from day 0 to day 5/6 of In Vitro culture and detect the the effect upon embryo quality and implantation potential.

Detailed description

The IVF culture media design and upgrade underwent many ideas during the last 3 decades, we suppose that adding insulin as a hormon and growth factor might improve embryo development in vitro so we decide to design a trial to compare the embryogenesis by sibling Oocytes of the same patient between to arm of the same culture media and yhe same culture condition but with one arm with insulin and the other is traditional one and closely monitor the outcome within the 2 arms abd record the results

Interventions

OTHERAdding insulin to In Vitro culture media

We will add insulin for in vitro culture of human embryos

Sponsors

Banon IVF Center Assiut, Egypt
CollaboratorOTHER
Ibn Sina Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER_GOV

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 40 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* normal responder * PCOS * Tubal factor infertility * mild asthenozoospermia

Exclusion criteria

* patient over 40

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
clinical Pregnancy rate ( % )6 months

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Blastocyst rate ( % )6 months
Blastocyst quality rate ( % )6 months

Countries

Egypt

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026