New perspectives on embryo biopsy: Not how, but when and why?

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 259-266

  Xu, Kangpu ^a   Montag, Markus ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

biopsy; blastocyst; blastomere; cleavage embryo; PGD; polar body

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONING; DISSECTION; ECTODERM; EMBRYO BIOPSY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LASER; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; POLAR BODY; REVIEW; TROPHECTODERM; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; LASERS; MOSAICISM; POLAR BODIES; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84862583491     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1313905     Document Type: Review

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