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Human Egg Maturity Assessment and Its Clinical Application
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Human Egg Maturity Assessment and Its Clinical Application

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Developmental potential of in vitro or in vivo matured oocytes

Diego D Alcoba1, Anita M Pimentel2, Ilma S Brum3

  • 1Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Endócrina e Tumoral,Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS),Rua Sarmento Leite,Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde,500 Porto Alegre,Rio Grande do Sul,Brazil.

Zygote (Cambridge, England)
|June 6, 2013
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Keywords:
Embryo developmentImmature stageIn vitro maturationStimulated cycle

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