In vitro fertilization: Four decades of reflections and promises

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1810, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 843-852

  Zhao, Yulian ^a   Brezina, Paul ^a   Hsu, Chao Chin ^b   Garcia, Jairo ^a   Brinsden, Peter R ^c   Wallach, Edward ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Bourn Hall Clinic ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization; Nobel Prize; Robert Edwards

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC SCREENING; HATCHING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NOBEL PRIZE; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79960745750     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: 18728006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2011.05.001     Document Type: Review

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