The impact of pronuclear orientation to select chromosomally normal embryos

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 107-114

  Borges Jr , Edson ^a   Rossi, Lia Mara ^a,b   Farah, Leila M S ^a,c   Guilherme, Patricia ^a   Rocha, Claudia C ^a   Ortiz, Valdemar ^a,d   Iaconelli Jr , Assumpto ^a  

^a Centro de Fertilização Assistida   (Brazil)

^b Medical School   (Brazil)

^c Laboratory of Molecular Genetics   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Embryo selection; ICSI; PN morphology; Preimplantation diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL COUNT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EMBRYO; EVALUATION; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NUCLEOLUS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 20844451198     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-005-4874-x     Document Type: Article

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