Evidence using a shared oocyte pool that the sperm rather than the oocyte in some cases may be responsible for the production of embryos with a high percentage of fragmented blastomeres - Case report

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-140

  Check, J H ^a,b   Cochrane, H ^a   Yuan, W ^a   Wilson, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastomere; Fragmentation; Shared oocytes; Sperm

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LEUPRORELIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; SPERM ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL STRUCTURE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OOCYTE; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ADULT; BLASTOMERES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

EID: 3042644854     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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