Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 77-82 , January 2007

In vitro development of human oocytes after parthenogenetic activation or intracytoplasmic sperm injection

  • Alessio Paffoni, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • Infertility Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
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  • Tiziana A.L. Brevini, D.Pharm., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • Biomedical Research Unit, Department of Anatomy of Domestic Animals, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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  • Edgardo Somigliana, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • Infertility Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Liliana Restelli, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • Infertility Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • ,
  • Fulvio Gandolfi, D.V.M., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • Biomedical Research Unit, Department of Anatomy of Domestic Animals, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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  • Guido Ragni, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • Infertility Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, Milan, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Guido Ragni, M.D., Infertility Unit, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatology, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli and Regina Elena, 20124 Milan, Italy (FAX: 00 39 025 503 4302).

Received 27 December 2005 ,Revised 31 May 2006 ,Accepted 31 May 2006.

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 Supported in part by Industrie Farmaceutiche Serono, Rome, Italy.

PII: S0015-0282(06)03157-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.05.063

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 1 , Pages 77-82 , January 2007

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