Assisted reproductive technologies and pregnancy outcomes: Mechanistic insights from animal studies

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-161

  Sinclair, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Genomic imprinting; Human; Large offspring syndrome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GAMETE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME IMPRINTING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; LARGE OFFSPRING SYNDROME; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MATERNAL AGE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OOGENESIS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 40349114497     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1042954     Document Type: Review

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