Title | Essential IVF [electronic resource] : Basic Research and Clinical Applications / edited by Jonathan Van Blerkom, Linda Gregory |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2004 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8955-0 |
Descript | XVI, 628 p. online resource |
One The Synthetic and Secretory Behaviors (Nonsteroidal) of Ovarian Follicular Granulosa Cells: Parallels to Cells of the Endothelial Cell Lineage -- Two Oocyte-Granulosa Cell Interactions -- Three Peri-Follicular Vascularity: A Marker of Follicular Heterogeneity and Oocyte Competence and a Predictor of Implantation in Assisted Conception Cycles -- Four do Biochemical Predictors of IVF Outcome Exist? -- Five Genetics of Male Infertility: Evolution of the X and Y Chromosome and Transmission of Male Infertility to Future Generations -- Six Sperm Analysis and Preparation Update -- Seven Preparation of Sperm Fractions and Individual Sperm With Low Levels of Chromosomal Aneuploidies for IVF And ICSI -- Eight Maternal Age and Oocyte Competence -- Nine Genetic Diagnosis of Metaphase II Oocytes -- Ten Oocyte Competence and In Vitro Maturation -- Eleven What is the Role of Mitochondria in Embryo Competency? -- Twelve Fundamentals of the Design of Culture Media that Support Human Preimplantation Development -- Thirteen the Biological Basis of Oocyte and Embryo Competence: Morphodynamic Criteria for Embryo Selection in In-Vitro Fertilization -- Fourteen the Enigma of Fragmentation in Early Human Embryos: Possible Causes and Clinical Relevance -- Fifteen Blastocyst Transfer Update: Pros and Cons -- Sixteen Assisted Hatching in Clinical IVF -- Seventeen Prospects for Obtaining Viable Oocytes from Cryopreserved Ovarian Tissue -- Eighteen Cryopreservation in Human Assisted Reproduction -- Nineteen Reducing the Number of Embryos to Transfer After IVF/ICSI -- Twenty Can and Should Human Embryos be โRescuedโ from Developmental Demise? Methods and Biological Basis -- Twenty-One Determination of Endometrial Status and the Implantation Window