Effects of maternal ageing on ICSI outcomes and embryo development in relation to oocytes morphological characteristics of birefringent structures

Zygote

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 550-555

  Korkmaz, Cem ^b   Tekin, Yesim Bayoglu ^a,c   Sakinci, Mehmet ^d   Ercan, Cihangir Mutlu ^b  

^a Gulhane Military Hospital IVF Center ^*  (Turkey)

^b Gulhane Military Hospital IVF Center   (Turkey)

^c RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84937073599     PISSN: 09671994     EISSN: 14698730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0967199414000197     Document Type: Article

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