Effects of two vitrification protocols on the developmental potential of human mature oocytes

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 292-298

  Paffoni, Alessio ^a   Guarneri, Cristina ^a   Ferrari, Stefania ^a   Restelli, Liliana ^a   Nicolosi, Anna Elisa ^a   Scarduelli, Claudia ^a   Ragni, Guido ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

CryoTip; CryoTop; oocyte cryopreservation; vitrification

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE MATURATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITRIFICATION;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 79951681954     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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