Analysis of embryo morphokinetics, multinucleation and cleavage anomalies using continuous time-lapse monitoring in blastocyst transfer cycles

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Desai, Nina ^a   Ploskonka, Stephanie ^a   Goodman, Linnea R ^a   Austin, Cynthia ^a   Goldberg, Jeffrey ^a   Falcone, Tommaso ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Cleavage; Embryo development; Embryoscope; Implantation; Morphokinetic parameters; Pregnancy; Time lapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; BLASTULA; CELL CYCLE; CONTINUOUS TIME LAPSE MONITORING; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOSCOPE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL AND OBSTETRIC ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; LABORATORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORULA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ZYGOTE; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BLASTOMA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLASSIFICATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CYTOLOGY; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NUCLEAR DIVISION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY RATE; UNITED STATES; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMERES; CELL NUCLEUS DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MORULA; OHIO; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84902707143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-12-54     Document Type: Article

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