Birth of nine normal healthy babies following transfer of blastocysts derived from human single-pronucleate zygotes

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1401-1407

  Itoi, Fumiaki ^a,c   Asano, Yukiko ^b   Shimizu, Masashi ^c   Honnma, Hiroyuki ^d   Murata, Yasutaka ^c  

^a Department of Infertility Green Bell Clinic   (Japan)

^b Department of Infertility Royal Bell Clinic   (Japan)

^c Angel Bell Hospital   (Japan)

^d Sapporo ART Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastocyst culture; Clinical outcome; Conventional in vitro fertilization; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Normal healthy babies; Single pronucleate embryos

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BLASTOCYST; CELL TRANSFER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONUCLEUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ZYGOTE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FOLLOW UP; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CELL NUCLEUS; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84943354310     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0518-y     Document Type: Article

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