Human implantation: The last barrier in assisted reproduction technologies?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 887-904

  Edwards, Robert G ^a  

^a Dry Drayton   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endocrinology; Endometrium; Human embryos in vitro; Implantation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; FAS LIGAND; FOLLITROPIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 3; L SELECTIN; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MIGRATION INHIBITION FACTOR; MUCIN 1; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; SERIC GONADOTROPIN; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SYNAPTOBREVIN 2; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANEUPLOIDY; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; EMBRYO POLARITY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS GROWTH; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TOTIPOTENT STEM CELL;

EID: 33845879933     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61039-5     Document Type: Review

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