Table 2. Effects of endoplasmic reticulum stress inhibitor treatments during activation procedure on the in vitro development of parthenogenetic embryos

Treatment		No. of embryos cultured	No. of embryos developed to		Cell number (mean±S.E.)
Treatment		No. of embryos cultured	≥2-cell (%)	Blastocyst (%)	Cell number (mean±S.E.)
E	Control	295	203 (68.8)	43 (14.2)^a	27.1±2.6^a
	Sal	290	215 (74.1)	66 (22.8)^b	66.1±5.3^b
	TUD	287	207 (72.1)	64 (22.3)^b	65.0±9.4^b
	Sal+TUD	289	221 (76.5)	42 (14.5)^a	47.4±6.2^b
EC	Control	305	204 (66.9)	41 (13.4)^a	43.6±4.9^a
	Sal	300	224 (74.7)	57 (19.0)^ab	74.4±2.8^b
	TUD	311	239 (76.8)	67 (21.5)^b	63.9±8.2^b
	Sal+TUD	299	226 (75.6)	52 (17.4)^ab	70.7±4.4^b

Values with different letters are significantly different (p<0.05).