Gamete competence assessment by polarizing optics in assisted reproduction

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 654-666

  Montag, Markus ^a,b   Köster, Maria ^a   van der Ven, Katrin ^a   van der Ven, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

oocyte; Polarization microscopy; sperm birefringence; Spindle; zona

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED REPRODUCTION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; SPINDLE CELL;

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; OOCYTES; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 80051935485     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmr016     Document Type: Review

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