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Assisted Reproduction
Early embryo sHLA-G expression boosts pregnancy, implantation rates
June 23rd, 2005
Early intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)-derived embryo sHLA-G expression boosts pregnancy and implantation rates, reproductive specialists report. G. Sher and coworkers at the Sher Institutes for Reproductive Medicine & Mobilab in Las Vegas, noted they "previously reported the retrospective observation that when at least one embryo, transferred on day 3, expressed sHLA-G above the geometric mean (sHLA-G+) 46 hours post-ICSI, there was a marked improvement in both pregnancy (PR) and implantation (IR) rates." In their current study, they tested "the media surrounding individual embryos derived from ICSI performed on oocytes from 482 women...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-23)
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