Human preimplantation embryo development in vitro: A morphological assessment of sibling zygotes cultured in a single medium or in sequential media

Human Fertility

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 278-285

  Summers, Michael C ^a,b   Bird, Sophie ^a   Mirzai, Fatima Mirzazadeh ^b   Thornhill, Alan ^a,b,d   Biggers, John D ^c  

^a London Bridge Fertility   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human embryo culture; Morphologic assessment; Sequential media; Single medium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNER CELL MASS; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; ZYGOTE;

BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SIBLINGS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84890052031     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2013.806823     Document Type: Article

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