Ace consensus meeting report: Culture systems

Human Fertility

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 239-251

  Bolton, Virginia N ^a   Cutting, Rachel ^b   Clarke, Helen ^b   Brison, Daniel R ^c  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b JESSOP HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embryo culture; Human embryo; IVF

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; SOUND; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

CULTURE MEDIUM;

BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84987898777     PISSN: 14647273     EISSN: 17428149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14647273.2014.944417     Document Type: Article

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