Role of coculture in human in vitro fertilization: a meta-analysis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1069-1076

  Kattal, Namita ^a   Cohen, Jerry ^c   Barmat, Larry I ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Abington Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^c ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; Coculture; embryo morphology; human IVF

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; META ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52949107585     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.07.1349     Document Type: Article

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