Reduced blastocyst formation in reduced culture volume

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1365-1370

  De Munck, N ^a   Santos Ribeiro, S ^a,b   Mateizel, I ^a   Verheyen, G ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blastocyst formation; Blastocyst quality; Embryo culture; Embryo quality; Media volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMA; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNER CELL MASS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIBLING; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOZOON; YOUNG ADULT;

CULTURE MEDIUM;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943351186     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0541-z     Document Type: Article

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