Diagnosing cellular defects in an unexplained case of total fertilization failure

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1666-1671

  Combelles, Catherine M H ^a   Morozumi, Kazuto ^b   Yanagimachi, Ryuzo ^b   Zhu, Liben ^c   Fox, Janis H ^c   Racowsky, Catherine ^c  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

chromosome; fertilization failure; oocyte activation; polar body; spindle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM IONOPHORE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MALE GAMETOPHYTE; MALE INFERTILITY; MUSCLE SPINDLE; OOCYTE CORTEX; OOCYTE MATURATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERM DONOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 77955870824     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq064     Document Type: Article

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