Assisted reproductive research: Laser assisted hatching and spindle detection (spindle view technique)

Acta Veterinaria Hungarica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 113-123

  Kanyó, Katalin ^a   Konc, J ^a   Solti, L ^b   Cseh, S ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Assisted reproductive techniques; Examination of spindles in oocytes; Laser assisted hatching; Spindle view technique

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HATCHING; IMAGING SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LASER; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLARIZATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPINDLE CELL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ANIMAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE STRAIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 2342536378     PISSN: 02366290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AVet.52.2004.1.11     Document Type: Article

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