Exposure of embryos to oxygen at low concentration in a cleavage stage transfer program: Reproductive outcomes in a time-series analysis

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 58, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 997-1003

  Calzi, Federico ^a   Papaleo, Enrico ^a   Rabellotti, Elisa ^a   Ottolina, Jessica ^a   Vailati, Simona ^a   Viganò, Paola ^a   Candiani, Massimo ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cleavage stage transfer; ICSI; IVF; Laboratory incubator; Oxygen concentration

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; OXYGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL LABORATORY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN TENSION; PREGNANCY RATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84868556574     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2012.111118     Document Type: Article

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