Influence of group culture and culture volume on the formation of human blastocysts: A prospective randomized study

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2333-2337

  Rijnders, P M ^a   Jansen, C A M ^a  

^a REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Culture volume; Group culture; Human blastocyst formation; ICSI; IVF

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 0032859374     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.9.2333     Document Type: Article

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