Non-contact microdrilling of mouse zona pellucida with an objective-delivered 1.48-μm diode laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 52-62

  Rink, Klaus ^a   Delacrétaz, Guy ^a   Salathé, René P ^a   Senn, Alfred ^b   Nocera, Dorota ^b   Germond, Marc ^b   De Grandi, Pierre ^b   Fakan, Stanislav ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assisted fertilization; Infrared laser; Microdissection; Oocyte; Photothermolysis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; INFERTILITY; INFRARED RADIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HEAT; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; LENSES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSURGERY; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0030047391     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)18:1<52::AID-LSM7>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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