Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 1 , Pages 131-136 , July 2009

Artificial oocyte activation with calcium ionophore A23187 in intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles using surgically retrieved spermatozoa

  • Edson Borges Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility-Assisted Fertilization Center, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Sapientiae Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Botucatu Medical School/UNESP Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Edson Borges, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Fertility–Assisted Fertilization Center and Sapientiae Institute Clinical, Av. Brigadeiro Luis Antonio 4545, 01401-002 São Paulo, Brazil (FAX: 55-11-38859858).
    • ,
  • Daniela Paes de Almeida Ferreira Braga, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility-Assisted Fertilization Center, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Sapientiae Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Tatiana Carvalho de Sousa Bonetti, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Sapientiae Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Assumpto Iaconelli Jr., M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Fertility-Assisted Fertilization Center, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • José Gonçalves Franco Jr., M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Human Reproduction, Riberião preto, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Post Graduation Program, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Botucatu Medical School/UNESP Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Received 7 March 2008 ,Revised 21 April 2008 ,Accepted 21 April 2008.

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 E.B. has nothing to disclose. D.P.F.B. has nothing to disclose. T.C.B. has nothing to disclose. A.I. has nothing to disclose. J.G.F. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00961-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.04.046

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 1 , Pages 131-136 , July 2009

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