An oocyte score for use in assisted reproduction

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 350-358

  Wilding, Martin ^a   Di Matteo, Loredana ^a,b   D'Andretti, Sonia ^c   Montanaro, Nadia ^c   Capobianco, Clemente ^c   Dale, Brian ^a  

^a Centre for Reproductive Biology   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Clinica Villa Serena   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Human oocyte; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Morphological analysis; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 34548381707     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-007-9143-8     Document Type: Article

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