Type of culture media does not affect embryo kinetics: A time-lapse analysis of sibling oocytes

Human Reproduction

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 634-641

  Basile, Natalia ^a   Morbeck, Dean ^b   García Velasco, Juan ^a   Bronet, Fernando ^a   Meseguer, Marcos ^c  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

culture media; embryo kinetics; time lapse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NIDATION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PARAMETERS; PREGNANCY RATE; SIBLING; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84874342004     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des462     Document Type: Article

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