A prospective trial of blastocyst culture and transfer

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1846-1851

  Utsunomiya, Takafumi ^a   Naitou, Tae ^a   Nagaki, Miyuki ^a  

^a St Luke Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Blastocyst; Embryo transfer; Pregnancy; Sequential media

Indexed keywords

ALGESTONE; BUSERELIN ACETATE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PERGOGREEN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE DONATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0036063135     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.7.1846     Document Type: Article

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