Ooplasmic transfer in mature human oocytes

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 269-280

  Cohen, Jacques ^a   Scott, Richard ^a   Alikani, Mina ^a   Schimmel, Tim ^a   Munné, Santiago ^a   Levron, Jacob ^b   Wu, Lizi ^c   Brenner, Carol ^a   Warner, Carol ^c   Willadsen, Steen ^a  

^a Inst Repro Med/Sci St Barnabas   (United States)

^b Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Israel)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrofusion; Intracytoplasmic injection; Mature oocyte; Mitochondrial fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOPLASM; DONOR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KARYOTYPE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METAPHASE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS;

CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL FUSION; CYTOPLASM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OOCYTE DONATION; OVUM; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0005775688     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/4.3.269     Document Type: Article

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