A Color Atlas for Human Assisted Reproduction is a comprehensive guide to the complex procedures used in assisted reproduction.

A Color Atlas for Human Assisted Reproduction gives detailed instructions on ovarian stimulation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, assisted hatching, cryopreservation, extended in vitro culturing, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and embryo transfer techniques.

Contents

Laboratory Insights

1. The Biology of Fertilization in Humans
2. The New Imaging Technique Applied to Human Reproduction
3. The Oocyte
4. Fertilization and Cleavage
5. Classification of Pronuclei and Polarity of the Zygote: Correlations with Outcome
6. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection
7. Morphological Scoring of Human Embryos and Its Relevance to Blastocyst Trasfer
8. Assisted Hatching
9. Oocyte and Embryo Cryopreservation
10. Practical Aspects of Human Ovarian Tissue Storage
11. Polar Body Biopsy, Embryo Biopsy, and Fixation for Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization Analysis
12. Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Transfer in Mouse and Human Oocytes

Clinical Insights

13. The Clinical Component of Assisted Reproductice Technologies
14. The Technique of Ovarian Transplantation: Laboratory and Clinical Aspects

Additional Topics

15. Media Used in the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Laboratories
16. Cryopreservation Protocols
17. Quality Control and Accreditation
18. The Ethics of Stem Cell Therapy

Index

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