Pathogenesis, developmental consequences, and clinical correlations of human embryo fragmentation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1197-1204

  Fujimoto, Victor Y ^a   Browne, Richard W ^b   Bloom, Michael S ^c   Sakkas, Denny ^d   Alikani, Mina ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Typho Galileo Research Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

apoptosis; cytoskeleton; Embryo fragmentation; follicular fluid cholesterol; HDL metabolism; oocyte quality

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DNA DEGRADATION, NECROTIC; DNA FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; OOCYTES;

EID: 79952448231     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.11.033     Document Type: Article

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