Fertility and Sterility
Volume 74, Issue 5 , Pages 916-919 , November 2000

A simple and reliable method for meiotic studies on testicular samples used for intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Received 13 January 2000 ,Revised 28 April 2000 ,Accepted 28 April 2000.

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☆ Supported by grants from the Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC).

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Fertility and Sterility
Volume 74, Issue 5 , Pages 916-919 , November 2000

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