Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 8 , Pages 2723-2728 , 15 May 2010

Aberrant behavior of mouse embryo development after blastomere biopsy as observed through time-lapse cinematography

Received 9 June 2009 ,Revised 26 June 2009 ,Accepted 26 June 2009.

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 T.U. has nothing to disclose. Y.T. has nothing to disclose. H.H. has nothing to disclose. C.L.V. has nothing to disclose. H.N. has nothing to disclose. N.Y. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)01430-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.06.056

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 8 , Pages 2723-2728 , 15 May 2010

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