Predictive models for the development of improved cryopreservation protocols for human oocytes

Preservation of Human Oocytes: From Cryobiology Science to Clinical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 62-82

  McGrath, John ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

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