Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 935.e11-935.e14 , March 2009

Successful pregnancy after oocyte activation by a calcium ionophore for a patient with recurrent intracytoplasmic sperm injection failure, with an assessment of oocyte activation and sperm centrosomal function using bovine eggs

Received 4 July 2008 ,Revised 9 September 2008 ,Accepted 9 September 2008.

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 Y.T. has nothing to disclose. H.H. has nothing to disclose. A.T. has nothing to disclose. T.U. has nothing to disclose. N.Y. has nothing to disclose. K.O. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)03937-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.09.043

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 3 , Pages 935.e11-935.e14 , March 2009

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