Assisted hatching in assisted reproduction

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 856-862

  Al Nuaim, Lulu A ^a   Jenkins, Julian M ^b  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH FACTOR; TYRODE ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; TYRODE'S SOLUTION;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOMERE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CONCEPTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DISSECTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEATH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; HATCHING; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARTIAL ZONA DISSECTION; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON; THAWING; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ADULT; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MICROMANIPULATION; NIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; ELECTRICITY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; LASERS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MICROMANIPULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0036674263     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2002.t01-1-01005.x     Document Type: Review

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