Fragmentation of human cleavage-stage embryos is related to the progression through meiotic and mitotic cell cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 374-381.e4

  Stensen, Mette Haug ^a   Tanbo, Tom Gunnar ^a,b   Storeng, Ritsa ^a   Åbyholm, Thomas ^a   Fedorcsak, Peter ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; fragmentation; meiosis; meiotic spindle; mitosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO FRAGMENTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR ASPIRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; POLAR BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TIME-LAPSE VIDEO MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CELL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CELL CYCLE; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84923195059     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.10.031     Document Type: Article

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