Ambient air and its potential effects on conception in vitro

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1742-1749

  Cohen, Jacques ^a   Gilligan, Antonia ^b   Esposito, William ^b   Schimmel, Tim ^a   Dale, Brian ^c  

^a Inst Repro Med/Sci St Barnabas   (United States)

^b Ambient Laboratories   (United States)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambient air; Chemical air contamination; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ANESTHETIC AGENT; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE; HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INCUBATOR; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 0030928111     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.8.1742     Document Type: Article

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