Oocyte morphology does not affect fertilization rate, embryo quality and implantation rate after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3431-3433

  Balaban, Basak ^a   Urman, Bulent ^a   Sertac, Aycan ^a   Alatas, Cengiz ^a   Aksoy, Senai ^a   Mercan, Ramazan ^a  

^a AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Embryo; Fertilization; Implantation; Intrac sperm injection; Oocyte morphology

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE DURATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MATERNAL AGE; METAPHASE; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0032442791     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.12.3431     Document Type: Article

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