Brown oocytes: Implications for assisted reproductive technology

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1522-1525

  Esfandiari, Navid ^a   Burjaq, Hasan ^a   Gotlieb, Lynda ^a   Casper, Robert F ^a  

^a Toronto Centre for Advanced Reproductive Technology   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OOCYTES; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750181902     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.03.056     Document Type: Article

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