Early embryo development in a sequential versus single medium: A randomized study

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Paternot, Goedele ^a   Debrock, Sophie ^a   D'Hooghe, Thomas M ^a   Spiessens, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OVULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; QUALITY CONTROL;

ADULT; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; QUALITY CONTROL; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 77954275296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-83     Document Type: Article

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