Resumption of mitosis in frozen-thawed embryos is not related to the chromosomal constitution

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1649-1655

  Agerholm, Inge E ^a   Kølvraa, Steen ^b   Crüger, Dorthe G ^b   Berg, Charlotte ^b   Bruun Petersen, Gert ^b   Ziebe, Søren ^c  

^a HORSENS REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b LILLEBAELT HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; blastomere loss; cryopreservation; multinuclearity; resumption of mitosis

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MITOSIS; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAWING;

ADULT; BLASTOMERES; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MITOSIS; PLOIDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 55149095985     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.08.015     Document Type: Article

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