The clinical benefit and safety of current and future assisted reproductive technology

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 108-117

  Brown, Rachel ^a   Harper, Joyce ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technology; embryo selection; IVF; preimplantation genetic screening; sperm DNA damage; time lapse imaging

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METABOLOMICS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPLANTATION;

AMINO ACIDS; DNA DAMAGE; GENETIC TESTING; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; METABOLOMICS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84864485449     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.04.009     Document Type: Review

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