Beneficial aspects of co-culture with assisted hatching when applied to multiple-failure in-vitro fertilization patients

Human Reproduction

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2429-2433

  Wiemer, K E ^a   Garrisi, J ^b,c   Steuerwald, N ^a   Alikani, M ^b,c   Reing, A M ^b,c   Ferrara, T A ^b,c   Noyes, N ^b,d   Cohen, J ^b,c  

^a Institute for Assisted Reproduction   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Inst for Repro Med and Science   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted hatching; Co culture; Implantation; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCULTURE; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL AGE; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 0030475365     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019130     Document Type: Article

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