Proposed guidelines on the nomenclature and annotation of dynamic human embryo monitoring by a time-lapse user group

Human Reproduction

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2650-2660

  Ciray, H Nadir ^a   Campbell, Alison ^b   Agerholm, Inge Errebo ^c   Aguilar, Jesús ^d   Chamayou, Sandrine ^e   Esbert, Marga ^f   Sayed, Shabana ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CARE Fertility Group   (United Kingdom)

^c Fertility Clinic Hospitalsenheden Horsens   (Denmark)

^d IVI Vigo   (Spain)

^e Unità Di Medicina della Riproduzione Istituto HERA   (Italy)

^f IVI Barcelona   (Spain)

^g Klinikk Hausken   (Norway)

Author keywords

developmental kinetics; embryo assessment; embryo development; morphology; time lapse monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMA; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUSION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CYTOKINESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; MITOSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; OOCYTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; SMOOTH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO CULTURE; NOMENCLATURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BLASTOCYST; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84923900248     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deu278     Document Type: Article

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