Assisted hatching using a 1.48-μm diode laser: Evaluation of zona opening and zona thinning techniques in human embryos

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 221-226

  Yano, Kohji ^a   Kubo, Toshiko ^a   Ôhashi, Ikuko ^a   Yano, Chieko ^a  

^a Yano Maternity Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

1.48 m diode laser; Assisted hatching; OCTAX Laser Shot system; Zona opening; Zona thinning

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LASER ASSISTED HATCHING; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 33746862503     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2006.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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