Cryopreservation of two pronuclear stage zygotes

Reviews in Gynaecological Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-44

  Orief, Yasser ^a   Nikolettos, Nikos ^b   Al Hassani, Safaa ^c  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; Two pronuclear stage zygote

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENT; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL TRANSFER; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EUROPE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZE THAWING; GERMANY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ITALY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PRONUCLEUS; SURVIVAL; SWITZERLAND; VITRIFICATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 18144415103     PISSN: 14717697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rigp.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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