Performing ICSI using an injection pipette with the smallest possible inner diameter and a long taper increases normal fertilization rate, decreases incidence of degeneration and tripronuclear zygotes, and enhances embryo development

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 426-435

  Yavas, Yalcin ^a   Roberge, Sylvie ^a   Khamsi, Firouz ^a   Shirazi, Parvin ^a   Endman, Maxine W ^a   Wong, Jeremy C ^a  

^a Toronto Fertility Sterility Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Embryo; Fertilization; ICSI; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INJECTION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PIPETTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MICROINJECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0034814869     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016634704469     Document Type: Article

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