Improved fertilization and implantation rates after nontouch zona pellucida microdrilling of mouse oocytes with a 1.48 μm diode laser beam

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1043-1048

  Germond, M ^a   Nocera, D ^a   Senn, A ^a   Rink, K ^b   Delacretaz G ^b   Pedrazzini, T ^a   Hornung, J P ^c  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Infrared diode laser; Microdrilling; Mouse; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; SAFETY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0030004429     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019294     Document Type: Article

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