Culture conditions and not prolonged culture time are responsible for monozygotic twinning in human in vitro fertilization [3]

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 462-463

  Cassuto, Guy ^a   Chavrier, Martine ^a   Menezo, Yves ^b  

^a Laboratoire Drouot   (France)

^b LMM Laboratoire Marcel Merieux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STUDENT T TEST; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0042065058     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(03)00599-5     Document Type: Article

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