Relatively poor oocyte quality is an indication for intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 465-469

  Saito, Hidekazu ^a   Saito, Takakazu ^a   Kaneko, Tomoko ^a   Sasagawa, Isoji ^a   Kuramoto, Takeshi ^a,b   Hiroi, Masahiko ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kuramoto Women s Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; ICSI; IVF; Oocyte quality

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; JAPAN; MALE; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

APOPTOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0033954921     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00547-6     Document Type: Article

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