Revisiting Germinal Vesicle Transfer as a Treatment for Aneuploidy in Infertile Women with Diminished Ovarian Reserve

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 313-317

  Zhang, John ^a  

^a New Hope Fertility Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoplasm; Germinal vesicle; Meiotic maturation; Meiotic spindle; Nucleus; Oocyte

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GERMINAL VESICLE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE; OVARIAN RESERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; CELL REPROGRAMMING TECHNIQUE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MAMMALIA;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CELLULAR REPROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MICE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN RESERVE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84923824713     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0400-3     Document Type: Article

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