Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 2 , Pages 598-604 , 15 January 2010

“Physiologic ICSI”: Hyaluronic acid (HA) favors selection of spermatozoa without DNA fragmentation and with normal nucleus, resulting in improvement of embryo quality

Received 22 December 2008 ,Revised 19 February 2009 ,Accepted 4 March 2009.

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 L.P. has nothing to disclose. G.E.C. has nothing to disclose. S.B. has nothing to disclose. E.T. has nothing to disclose. W.C. has nothing to disclose. M.F. has nothing to disclose.

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doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.033

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Volume 93, Issue 2 , Pages 598-604 , 15 January 2010

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