Preliminary observations on polar body extrusion and pronuclear formation in human oocytes using time-lapse video cinematography

Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 532-541

  Payne, Dianna ^a   Flaherty, Sean P ^a   Barry, Michael F ^a   Matthews, Colin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fertilization; ICSI; Polar body; Pronuclei; Time lapse video

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE; PERIODICITY; PRONUCLEUS; SPERMATOZOON;

EID: 0030965102     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/12.3.532     Document Type: Article

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