Chemical zona pellucida thinning with acidified Tyrode's solution: Comparison between partial and circumferential techniques

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 471-475

  Yano, Kohji ^a   Yano, Chieko ^a   Kubo, Toshiko ^a   Ôhashi, Ikuko ^a   Maeda, Nagamasa ^b   Fukaya, Takao ^b  

^a Yano Maternity Clinic   (Japan)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acidified Tyrode's solution; Assisted hatching; Circumferential zona thinning; Partial zona thinning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ADULT; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 35648957192     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-007-9131-z     Document Type: Article

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