The use of morphokinetics as a predictor of embryo implantation

Human Reproduction

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2658-2671

  Meseguer, Marcos ^a   Herrero, Javier ^a   Tejera, Alberto ^a   Hilligsøe, Karen Marie ^b   Ramsing, Niels Birger ^b   Remoh, Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Unisense AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cell division; Embryo; exact timing; pregnancy; time lapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INCUBATOR; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KINETICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOKINETICS; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; OOCYTE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 80052910371     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/der256     Document Type: Article

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