Freeze-thaw programmes rescue the implantation of day 6 blastocysts

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 428-433

  Murata, Yasutaka ^a   Oku, Hirotsugu ^a   Morimoto, Yoshiharu ^a   Tokuda, Mari ^b   Murata, Tomoko ^b   Sugihara, Kengo ^b   Nagata, Fumie ^b   Nakaoka, Yoshiharu ^b   Fukuda, Aisaku ^b  

^a The Centre for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility   (Japan)

^b IVF Osaka Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Day 6 blastocyst; Freeze thaw programme; Hormone replacement cycle; Implantation window; Synchrony between embryo and endometrium

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CETRORELIX; CHLORMADINONE ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; FUJI HMG; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LUTORAL; PUROFASI; SPRECURE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO GROWTH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NIDATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 28844443532     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61134-0     Document Type: Article

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