The Well-of-the-Well system: An efficient approach to improve embryo development

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-81

  Vajta, Gábor ^a   Korösi, Tamás ^b   Du, Yutao ^c   Nakata, Kumiko ^d   Ieda, Shoko ^d   Kuwayama, Masashige ^d   Nagy, Zsolt Peter ^e  

^a PIVET Medical Centre   (Australia)

^b Kaáli Institute   (Hungary)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^d Advanced Medical Research Institute of Fertility   (Japan)

^e REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Culture; Microenvironment; Pregnancy; Transfer

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLASTOCYST; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MALE; METAPHASE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; SWINE; WELL OF THE WELL SYSTEM; ZYGOTE;

EID: 48249138472     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60296-9     Document Type: Article

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