Analysis of pronuclear zygote configurations in 459 clinical pregnancies obtained with assisted reproductive technique procedures

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nicoli, Alessia ^a   Capodanno, Francesco ^a   Moscato, Lucia ^a   Rondini, Ilaria ^a   Villani, Maria T ^a   Tuzio, Antonella ^a   La Sala, Giovanni B ^a  

^a Sterility Centre P Bertocchi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NUCLEOLUS; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRONUCLEUS; ZYGOTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; STATISTICS;

EMILIA;

ADULT; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; ZYGOTE; ZYGOTE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER;

EID: 77954576236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-8-77     Document Type: Article

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