Perspectives on compensated egg-sharing in the People's Republic of China

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 664-665

  Heng, Boon Chin ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Pedieos IVF Center   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE DONATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; SOCIAL STATUS; SPERM PRESERVATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; PREGNANCY;

CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 34248662946     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61061-9     Document Type: Article

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