Advanced embryo development during extended in vitro culture: Observations of formation and hatching patterns in non-transferred human blastocysts

Human Fertility

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 215-220

  Porter, Richard N ^a,b   Tucker, Michael J ^b,c,d   Graham, James ^b   Sills, E Scott ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center   (United States)

^c Georgia Reproductive Specialists LLC   (United States)

^d ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037005412     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1464727022000199152     Document Type: Article

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