Fertility and Sterility
Volume 86, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1112-1120 , October 2006

In vitro blastocyst development from serially split mouse embryos and future implications for human assisted reproductive technologies

  • Karl Illmensee, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogen Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus
    • Andrology Institute of America
    • ,
  • Khalied Kaskar, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Andrology Institute of America
    • Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
    • ,
  • Panayiotis M. Zavos, Ed.S., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Reprogen Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus
    • Andrology Institute of America
    • Kentucky Center for Reproductive Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Panayiotis M. Zavos, Ed.S., Ph.D., Andrology Institute of America, P.O. Box 23777, Lexington, Kentucky 40523 (FAX: 859-278-6906).

Received 9 December 2005 ,Revised 20 February 2006 ,Accepted 20 February 2006.

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PII: S0015-0282(06)01077-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.02.103

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 86, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1112-1120 , October 2006

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