Culture media for human pre-implantation embryos in assisted reproductive technology cycles

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Youssef, Mohamed Ma ^a   Mantikou, Eleni ^b   van Wely, Madelon ^b   Van der Veen, Fulco ^b   Al Inany, Hesham G ^a   Repping, Sjoerd ^b   Mastenbroek, Sebastiaan ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE;

CULTURE MEDIUM;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84959315741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007876.pub2     Document Type: Review

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