Relation between pronuclear morphology of human zygotes with embryo quality, implantation rate & pregnancy;Relación de la morfología de los pronúcleos de cigotos humanos con la calidad embrionaria, tasa de implantación y embarazo

Revista Iberoamericana de Fertilidad y Reproduccion Humana

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 133-142

  Álvarez Lleó, Cristina ^a   Taronger, R ^a   Garcia Garrido C ^a   Navarro, S ^a   Gonzalez de Merlo G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Embryo; Gestation rate; Nucleolar precursor bodies; Pronuclear morphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; NUCLEOLUS; PREGNANCY RATE; PRONUCLEUS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ZONA PELLUCIDA; ZYGOTE;

EID: 23844527902     PISSN: 11320249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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