Zona pellucida damage to human embryos after cryopreservation and the consequences for their blastomere survival and in-vitro viability

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 373-378

  Van Den Abbeel, Etienne ^a   Van Steirteghem, André ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Damage; In vitro viability; Survival; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DAMAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0033967302     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.2.373     Document Type: Article

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