Prediction of in-vitro developmental competence of early cleavage-stage mouse embryos with compact time-lapse equipment

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-379

  Pribenszky, Csaba ^a   Losonczi, Eszter ^b   Molnár, Miklós ^b   Lang, Zsolt ^a   Mátyás, Szabolcs ^c   Rajczy, Klára ^c   Molnár, Katalin ^c   Kovács, Péter ^c   Nagy, Péter ^d   Conceicao, Jason ^e   Vajta, Gábor ^f  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b ARTechnic Co Research and Development   (Hungary)

^c Kaali Institute IVF Center   (Hungary)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^e PIVET Medical Centre   (Australia)

^f Cairns Fertility Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Early cleavage; Fragmentation; In vitro culture; Microwell culture dish; Time lapse monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE EMBRYO; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; TIME LAPSE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 78649317474     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.007     Document Type: Article

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