Strategies to improve embryo implantation to supraphysiological rates

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1221, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-79

  Setti, Paolo Emanuele Levi ^a   Bulletti, Carlo ^b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b Cervesi Hospital of Cattolica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Embryo chromosomal anomalies; Human fertility potential; Implantation rate; Oocyte competence

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; FERTILITY; GAMETE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MOTHER; NIDATION; OOCYTE; POLICY; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPERM PRESERVATION;

EID: 79952659586     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.05950.x     Document Type: Article

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