Recurrent implantation failure: Gamete and embryo factors

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1021-1027

  Das, Mausumi ^a   Holzer, Hananel E G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

chromosome; embryo; Implantation failure; IVF; oocyte; sperm

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST;

ANEUPLOIDY; BLASTOCYST; CELL VIABILITY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION; DNA DAMAGE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMETE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; METABOLOMICS; NIDATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RECURRENT NIDATION FAILURE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TREATMENT FAILURE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SPERMATOZOA; TREATMENT FAILURE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84860345007     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.02.029     Document Type: Review

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