Application of image analysis cytometry in follicular fluid cells obtained from in-vitro fertilization cycles: Relationships to patient's age, oocyte maturity, fertilizability and in-vitro fertilization outcome

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2200-2207

  Agorastos, Theodoros ^a,b   Bontis, John ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil ^a   Billi, Helen ^a   Constantinidis, Theodoros ^a   Mantalenakis, Serge ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Cytometry; Follicular fluid cells; Image analysis; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

DNA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA CONTENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; POLYPLOIDY; PREDICTION;

EID: 0029823304     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019076     Document Type: Article

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