Hyaluronic acid versus albumin in human embryo transfer medium

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 876-880

  Mahani, I Mehri ^a   Davar, R ^b  

^a KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID SADOUGHI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; D 65926; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; HYALURONIC ACID; TISSUE CULTURE MEDIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NIDATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ALBUMINS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CULTURE MEDIA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; IRAN; MATERNAL AGE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848896565     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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