A prospective randomized controlled study of the effect of short coincubation of gametes during insemination on zona pellucida thickness

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-403

  Dirnfeld, M ^a   Shiloh, H ^a   Bider, D ^b,c   Harari, E ^a   Koifman, M ^a   Lahav Baratz, S ^a   Abramovici, H ^a  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Short Exposure; Thickness; Zona Pellucida

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0242364737     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09513590312331290288     Document Type: Article

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