Human embryos from overweight and obese women display phenotypic and metabolic abnormalities

Human Reproduction

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 122-132

  Leary, Christine ^a,b   Leese, Henry J ^a   Sturmey, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

endogenous triglyceride; human embryo metabolism; obesity; precocious development

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; ISOLEUCINE; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; METABOLIC ACTIVITY ASSAY; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC REGULATION; MORULA; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CELL SIZE; COMPLICATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE INFERTILITY; KINETICS; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

BODY MASS INDEX; CELL SIZE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; KINETICS; OBESITY; OOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84922452904     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deu276     Document Type: Article

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