Predicting embryo quality: mRNA expression and the preimplantation embryo

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 340-348

  Corcoran, Deirdre ^a   Fair, Trudee ^a   Lonergan, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Blastocyst; Development; Embryo culture; Gene expression; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HLA G ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREDICTION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; RISK REDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 24644487148     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60842-5     Document Type: Article

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