Improved blastocyst formation with reduced culture volume: comparison of three different culture conditions on 1128 sibling human zygotes

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 215-220

  Minasi, Maria Giulia ^a   Fabozzi, Gemma ^a   Casciani, Valentina ^a   Lobascio, Anna Maria ^a   Colasante, Alessandro ^a   Scarselli, Filomena ^a   Greco, Ermanno ^a  

^a EUROPEAN HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blastocyst formation; Embryo culture; Embryo quality; Media volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIBLING; ZYGOTE; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CULTURE MEDIUM;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES;

EID: 84988231424     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0399-5     Document Type: Article

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