Use of synthetic serum substitute and α-minimum essential medium for the extended culture of human embryos to the blastocyst stage

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 328-335

  Desai, Nina ^a   Kinzer, Donna ^a   Loeb, Amy ^a   Goldfarb, James ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst transfer; Culture media; Human blastocyst; IVF; Synthetic serum substitute

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; HATCHING; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SERUM;

EID: 0030892452     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.2.328     Document Type: Article

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