The association between severe obesity and characteristics of failed fertilized oocytes

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3198-3207

  MacHtinger, Ronit ^a   Combelles, Catherine M H ^b   Missmer, Stacey A ^a,c   Correia, Katharine F ^a   Fox, Janis H ^a   Racowsky, Catherine ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

failed fertilization; IVF; obesity; oocyte; spindle

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAILED FERTILIZED OOCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEIOSIS; MEIOSIS SPINDLE; OBESITY; OOCYTE;

EID: 84867800092     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des308     Document Type: Article

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