Effects of early cleavage patterns of human embryos on subsequent in vitro development and implantation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 348-353.e2

  Mizobe, Yamato ^a,b   Oya, Naoto ^a   Iwakiri, Reiko ^a   Yoshida, Naomi ^a   Sato, Yumi ^a   Miyoshi, Kazuchika ^b   Tokunaga, Makoto ^a   Ezono, Yuji ^a  

^a Aiiku Ladies Clinic   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryonic division speed; EmbryoScope; first division; fragmentation; second division

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN;

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EMBRYO; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFERTILITY; INNER CELL MASS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; FERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; TIME FACTOR; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLASTOCYST; CELL DIVISION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84975099875     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.04.020     Document Type: Article

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