Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 1249-1252 , October 2008

Effect of a woman's smoking status on oocyte, zygote, and day 3 pre-embryo quality in in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer program

  • Irmhild Gruber, D.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Irmhild Gruber, D.Sc., Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Outpatient IVF Department, General Hospital St. Poelten, Propst-Fuehrer-Strasse 4, A-3100 St. Poelten, Austria (FAX: 43-2742-300-12429).
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  • Alexander Just, M.D.
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  • Monika Birner, Ph.D.
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  • Alexander Lösch, Ph.D.

Received 21 December 2006 ,Revised 21 June 2007 ,Accepted 21 June 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)03150-0

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.108

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 90, Issue 4 , Pages 1249-1252 , October 2008

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