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Growth rate of human preimplantation embryos is sex dependent after ICSI but not after IVF
24 Jan 2005
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BACKGROUND: There is concern that IVF and/or ICSI might have an adverse effect on embryonic development via epigenetic alterations. Such alterations might also be involved in the sex-related growth differences in preimplantation embryos found in some animal species. In the present study we analysed cell numbers of human male and female surplus embryos that developed to the blastocyst stage after either IVF or...
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