Increased ammonium in culture medium reduces the development of human embryos to the blastocyst stage

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 526-528

  Virant Klun, Irma ^a   Tomaževič, Tomaž ^a   Vrtačnik Bokal, Eda ^a   Vogler, Andrej ^a   Krsnik, Mladen ^a   Meden Vrtovec, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 31644435353     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.10.018     Document Type: Article

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