Which morphological scoring system is relevant in human embryo development?

Placenta

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Montag, Markus ^a,b   Liebenthron, Jana ^b   Köster, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embryo; Human; In vitro fertilization; Morphology; Prognostic factors; Time lapse imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 80052259402     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: 15323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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