Reproduction, 2018 The first conception outside of the human body that led to the birth of Louise Brown was a tremendous accomplishment, which opened the door to the utilization of assisted reproductive techniques globally. This brought the understanding that accomplishing life in a dish required several steps, the most obvious being the timing and characteristics of ...
C L, O'Neill +3 more
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Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Language Generation and Summarisation - UCNLG+Sum '09, 2009 In this paper, we describe our contribution to the Generation Challenge 2009 for the tasks of generating Referring Expressions to the Main Subject References (MSR) and Named Entities Generation (NEG). To generate the referring expressions, we employ the Conditional Random Fields (CRF) learning technique due to the fact that the selection of an ...
Benoit Favre, Bernd Bohnet
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Factors associated with failed treatment : an analysis of 121,744 women embarking on their first IVF cycles [PDF]
, 2013 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
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Dynamics of 5-methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine during pronuclear development in equine zygotes produced by ICSI [PDF]
, 2017 Background: Global epigenetic reprogramming is considered to be essential during embryo development to establish totipotency. In the classic model first described in the mouse, the genome-wide DNA demethylation is asymmetric between the paternal and the ...
De Schauwer, Catharina +3 more
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Single-cell analysis of [Ca2+]i signalling in sub-fertile men:characteristics and relation to fertilization outcome [PDF]
, 2018 STUDY QUESTIONWhat are the characteristics of progesterone-induced (CatSper-mediated) single cell [Ca2+]i signals in spermatozoa from sub-fertile men and how do they relate to fertilizing ability?SUMMARY ANSWERSingle cell analysis of progesterone-induced
Barratt, Christopher L.R. +7 more
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On the Security of Index Coding with Side Information [PDF]
, 2011 Security aspects of the Index Coding with Side Information (ICSI) problem are investigated. Building on the results of Bar-Yossef et al. (2006), the properties of linear index codes are further explored. The notion of weak security, considered by Bhattad
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Depolarization of sperm membrane potential is a common feature of men with subfertility and is associated with low fertilization rate at IVF [PDF]
, 2016 STUDY QUESTION. Are significant abnormalities in outward (K+) conductance and resting membrane potential (Vm) present in the spermatozoa of patients undertaking IVF and ICSI and if so, what is their functional effect on fertilization success?
Barratt, Christopher L. R. +9 more
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Parental attitudes toward disclosure of the mode of conception to their child conceived by in vitro fertilization [PDF]
, 2005 OBJECTIVES: To survey the level of disclosure of conception method within families of children conceived using conventional IVF or ICSI and to examine the factors that may influence parental attitudes and plans for disclosure.
Alastair Sutcliffe +19 more
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A spontaneous increase in intracellular Ca2+ in metaphase II human oocytes in vitro can be prevented by drugs targeting ATP-sensitive K+ channels [PDF]
, 2015 STUDY QUESTION: Could drugs targeting ATP-sensitive K+ (KATP) channels prevent any spontaneous increase in intracellular Ca2+ that may occur in human metaphase II (MII) oocytes under in vitro conditions?
Barratt, Christopher L. R. +13 more
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Abnormal early cleavage events predict early embryo demise: sperm oxidative stress and early abnormal cleavage. [PDF]
, 2014 Human embryos resulting from abnormal early cleavage can result in aneuploidy and failure to develop normally to the blastocyst stage. The nature of paternal influence on early embryo development has not been directly demonstrated although many studies ...
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