Noninvasive metabolomic profiling as an adjunct to morphology for noninvasive embryo assessment in women undergoing single embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 535-542

  Seli, Emre ^a   Vergouw, Carlijn G ^b   Morita, Hiroshi ^c   Botros, Lucy ^d   Roos, Pieter ^d   Lambalk, Cornelius B ^b   Yamashita, Naoki ^c   Kato, Osamu ^c   Sakkas, Denny ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Kato Ladies Clinic   (Japan)

^d Molecular Biometrics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

in vitro fertilization (IVF); metabolomic profiling; near infrared (NIR); Noninvasive embryo assessment; single embryo transfer (SET); spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL WELL BEING; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METABOLOMICS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BLASTOCYST; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; METABOLOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 77953709625     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.078     Document Type: Article

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