Prognostic value of meiotic spindle imaging on fertilization rate and embryo development in in vitro-matured human oocytes

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 429-433

  Braga, Daniela Paes de Almeida Ferreira ^a,b   Figueira, Rita de Cássia Sávio ^a   Rodrigues, Débora ^a   Madaschi, Camila ^a   Pasqualotto, Fabio Firmbach ^c   Iaconelli Jr , Assumpto ^a,b   Borges Jr , Edson ^a,b  

^a Fertility Assisted Fertilization Center   (Brazil)

^b Sapientiae Institute   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

COS; In vitro maturation; meiotic spindle; oocyte development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED OVARIAN STIMULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METAPHASE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 47849083543     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.088     Document Type: Article

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