A morphological and chromosomal study of blastocysts developing from morphologically suboptimal human pre-embryos compared with control blastocysts

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 399-407

  Hardarson, Thorir ^a   Caisander, Gunilla ^a   Sjögren, Anita ^a   Hanson, Charles ^a   Hamberger, Lars ^a   Lundin, Kersti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Blastocyst; FISH; IVF; Pre embryo

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL POPULATION; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0037323621     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg092     Document Type: Article

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