| Table 2. Media usage through various species and follicular stages. | |||
| Culture Medium | Species | Follicle Stage | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitten’s medium | Murine | PGOC | Eppig, 1980 |
| Bicarbonate buffered M199 | Murine | Small follicles | Torrance et al., 1989 |
| Waymouth’s medium | Murine | PGOC | Eppig, 1991 O’Brien et al., 2003 |
| Human | Immature | Laronda et al., 2014 | |
| Ovine | Primordial and primary (40–60µm) | Muruvi et al., 2005 | |
| Porcine | Preantral (200–300µm) | Hirao et al., 1994 | |
| Way/IBMX/lTS/BSA medium | Bovine | Preantral (60 to 179µm) | Wandji et al., 1996 |
| Murine | Preantral and COC | Vanderhyden et al., 1992 | |
| DMEM | Human | Class 1 (90µm) Class 2 (<90µm) |
Roy & Treacy, 1993 |
| Preantral (90–240µm) | Yuan & Guidice, 1999 | ||
| Marsupial | Primordial and primary (63.6–215.5µm) | Nation & Selwood, 2009 | |
| αMEM | Baboon | Preantral (270–300µm) | Xu et al., 2011b |
| Bovine | Preantral (190.0±6.6µm) | Araújo et al., 2014 | |
| Secondary (≥150µm) | Rossetto et al., 2013a | ||
| Caprine | Secondary (≥150µm) | Rossetto et al., 2013a | |
| Secondary (≥150µm) | Rossetto et al., 2013a | ||
| Preantral (≥200µm) | Magalhães et al., 2011 | ||
| Preantral (150–250µm) | Silva et al., 2015 | ||
| Preantral (~250µm) early antral (~350µm) |
Ferreira et al., 2018 | ||
| Canine | Pre- and early antral (100–500µm) | Songsasen et al., 2011 | |
| Feline | Secondary (208±7.9µm) Early antral (329.8±5.4µm) |
Songsasen et al., 2017 | |
| Secondary (100-200µm) | Thongkittidilok et al., 2018 | ||
| Human | Pre- and early antral (≥120µm) | Abir et al., 1997 | |
| Secondary (170–178µm) | Xu et al., 2009b | ||
| Secondary (176.46±7.20µm) | Laronda et al., 2014 | ||
| Murine | COC | Pangas et al., 2003 | |
| Preantral (150–200µm) | Adam et al., 2004 | ||
| Preantral (180–240µm) | Wycherley et al., 2004 | ||
| Antral (≥200 µm) | Miller et al., 2005 | ||
| Two-layered (100–130µm) Multi-layered (150–180µm) |
Kreeger et al., 2005; 2006 | ||
| Two-layered (100–130µm) | Xu et al., 2006b Shikanov et al., 2009 Desai et al., 2012 |
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| Multi-layered secondary (150–180µm) | Xu et al., 2006a | ||
| Preantral (~60–69µm) | Oktem & Oktay, 2007 | ||
| Secondary (111–137µm) | Jin et al., 2010 | ||
| Antral (360.94±16.1µm) | Craig et al., 2010 | ||
| Immature secondary (140–150µm) | Shikanov et al., 2011 | ||
| Secondary (~90, 100–105, or 120µm) | Tingen et al., 2011 | ||
| Early preantral (100–130µm) | Adriaens et al., 2004 | ||
| Antral (200–350µm) | Craig et al., 2013 | ||
| Antral (250–400µm) | Peretz & Flaws, 2013 Peretz et al., 2013 Hannon et al., 2015 Zhou & Flaws, 2017 Patel et al., 2016 |
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| Preantral (85–115µm) | Hornick et al., 2013 | ||
| Primary (60–80 µm) two-layered (90–100µm) Antral (225–400µm) |
Tagler et al., 2014 Mahalingam et al., 2016a; 2016b |
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| Secondary (180–210µm) | Skory et al., 2015 | ||
| Preantral (150-160µm) | Heise et al., 2005 | ||
| Preantral (140-170µm) | Heise et al., 2009 | ||
| Early secondary (100-130µm) | Mainigi et al., 2011 | ||
| Ovine | Preantral (small 130±10µm) Preantral (medium 185±14µm) Preantral large (250±10µm) |
Cecconi et al., 1999 | |
| Rhesus | Secondary (100–300µm) | Xu et al., 2009a | |
| Secondary (125–225µm) | Xu et al., 2011a Xu et al., 2010 Rodrigues et al., 2015 |
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| Primary (80–120µm) secondary (125–225µm) |
Xu et al., 2013 | ||
| Small antral (≥0.5mm) | Peluffo et al., 2013 | ||
| Secondary (125–250µm) | Ting et al., 2015 Baba et al., 2017 |
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| Secondary (130–220µm) | Xu et al., 2015b | ||
| Secondary (140–225µm) | Xu et al., 2018 | ||
| αMEM + F12 | Human | Multi-layered (165.8±32.3µm) | Xiao et al., 2015 |
| αMEM + Glutamax | Human | Preantral (190±30µm) | Aziz et al., 2017 |
| Secondary (74–260µm) | Skory et al., 2015 | ||
| Small preantral (42.98±9.06µm) | Amorim et al., 2009 | ||
| αMEM + TCM199 | Bovine | Preantral (≥190µm) | Araújo et al., 2015 |
| αMEM + Earle’s balanced salts | Murine | COC and PGOC | Buccione et al., 1990 Diaz et al., 2007 Sugiura et al., 2010 |
| TCM199B | Bovine | Preantral (40–70µm) | Schotanus et al., 1997 |
| Preantral (145–170µm) | Itoh et al., 2002 | ||
| Secondary (268.6±4.5µm) | Antonino et al., 2019 | ||
| Ovine | Preantral (250–400µm) | Arunakumari et al., 2010 | |
| Earle’s Balanced Salts | Human | Primary (47.0±8.2µm) | Abir et al., 1999 |
| McCoy’s 5a | Bovine | Preantral (166±2.15µm) | Gutierrez et al., 2000 |
| Human | Preantral (66 to 132µm) | Telfer et al., 2008 | |
| Secondary (≥100µm) | McLaughlin et al., 2014 | ||
| Primordial/primary follicle (≤60µm) primary/early secondary follicle (>60-120µm) Secondary (>120–250µm) |
Yin et al., 2016 | ||
| Secondary (100–150µm) | McLaughlin et al., 2018 | ||
| Ovine | Preantral (161±2µm) | Thomas et al., 2003 | |
| NUSC-23 Media | Porcine | Preantral (296±9µm) | Wu et al., 2001 |
| TALP | Rhesus | COC | Peluffo et al., 2010; 2012 |