Kinetic markers of human embryo quality using time-lapse recordings of IVF/ICSI-fertilized oocytes

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 385-391

  Lemmen, Josephine G ^a   Agerholm, I ^b   Ziebe, S ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b HORSENS REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Development; Kinetics; Marker; Morphology; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY RATE; PRONUCLEUS; SIBLING;

EID: 52049089697     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60222-2     Document Type: Article

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