Morphologic indicators predict the stage of chromatin condensation of human germinal vesicle oocytes recovered from stimulated cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2557-2564

  Escrich, Laura ^a   Grau, Noelia ^a   Meseguer, Marcos ^a   Pellicer, Antonio ^a,b,c   Escribá, María José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DR PESET   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chromatin configuration; germinal vesicle; morphologic predictors; nuclear envelope continuity; nucleolus like body; oocyte size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 77952106534     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.05.077     Document Type: Article

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