Improvement in early human embryo development using new formulation sequential stage-specific culture media

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1254-1260

  Cooke, Simon ^a   Quinn, Patrick ^a,b   Kime, Lee ^a   Ayres, Cheryl ^a   Tyler, John P P ^a   Driscoll, Geoff L ^a  

^a IVFAustralia   (Australia)

^b SAGE BioPharma   (United States)

Author keywords

Early embryo development; Embryo morphology; In vitro development; Sequential culture media; Uncontrolled division

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROINJECTION; MORPHOLOGY; OOCYTE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SIBLING;

ADULT; BLASTOMERES; BODY FLUIDS; CELL DIVISION; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 0036901734     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04343-1     Document Type: Article

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