Prospective comparison of two commercially available culture media under the provisions of the German embryo protection law

Journal of the Turkish German Gynecology Association

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 10-13

  Ebert, Paul ^a   Szypajlo, Beata ^a   Tomalak, Karin ^a   Völklein, Karl ^a  

^a Bielefeld Fertility Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture conditions; Culture media; Day 3 transfer; Global medium; Pregnancy loss

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSED ABORTION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 68949113957     PISSN: 13090399     EISSN: 13090380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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