The effect of pronuclear morphology on embryo quality parameters and blastocyst transfer outcome

Human Reproduction

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2357-2361

  Balaban, Basak ^a   Urman, Bulent ^a   Isiklar, Aycan ^a   Alatas, Cengiz ^a   Aksoy, Senai ^a   Mercan, Ramazan ^a   Mumcu, Alper ^a   Nuhoglu, Alp ^a  

^a AMERICAN HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Embryo quality; Embryo transfer; Zygote

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRONUCLEUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ZYGOTE;

EID: 0035152535     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/16.11.2357     Document Type: Article

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