Assessment of soluble human leukocyte antigen G in human embryos

Human Preimplantation Embryo Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 145-154

  Fisch, Jeffrey D ^a   Keskintepe, Levent ^a   Sher, Geoffrey ^b  

^a Sher Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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