International egg-sharing to provide donor oocytes for clinical assisted reproduction and derivation of nuclear transfer stem cells

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 676-678

  Heng, Boon Chin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Egg sharing; Ethics; Nuclear transfer; Oocyte; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONCEPTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; OOCYTE; PROGENY; STEM CELL; SUBFERTILITY;

EID: 29444445674     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61684-7     Document Type: Article

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