Summary:
Featuring more than 300 full-colour photographs, this atlas is a comprehensive guide to the complex procedures used in assisted reproduction. It shows readers how to utilise the latest technologies and correlates the laboratory and clinical components of assisted reproduction.

The book depicts oocytes, embryos, and blastocysts at various stages of division and offers guidelines for assessing oocytes and embryos. The authors give detailed instructions on ovarian stimulation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, assisted hatching, cryopreservation, extended in vitro culturing, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and embryo transfer techniques.

Close attention is also given to assessment of oocytes and embryos from patients with endometriosis and other pathologies.

FEATURES:

Covers a range of techniques, including intracytoplasmic sperm injection(ICSI), polar body biopsy, and extended in-vitro culturing
Over 300 color photographs
Depicts oocytes, embryos, and blastocysts at various stages of division and offers guidelines for assessing oocytes and embryos

Contents

PART I

CHAPTER 1. The Biology of fertilization in humans Laura Hewitson and Gerald Schatten
CHAPTER 2. The New Imaging Technique Applied to Human Reproduction Cathy Boutin and Clifford Hoyt
CHAPTER 3. The Oocyte Vanessa Guelman and Pasquale Patrizio
CHAPTER 4. Fertilization and Cleavage Vanessa Guelman
CHAPTER 5. Classification of Pronuclei and Polarity of the Zygote: Correlations with Outcome. Lynette Scott
CHAPTER 6. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Vanessa Guelman and Michael J. Tucker
CHAPTER 7. Morhological Scoring of Human Embryos and its Relevance to Blastocyst Transfer Michael J. Tucker and Juergen Liebermann
CHAPTER 8. Assisted Hatching Marc P. Portmann and Ronald F. Feinberg
CHAPTER 9. Oocyte and Embryo Cryopreservation Michael J. Tucker and Juergen Liebermann
CHAPTER 10. Practical Aspects of Human Ovarian Tissue Storage Deborah A. Gook and David H. Edgar
CHAPTER 11. Polar Body Biopsy, Embryo Biopsy and Fixation for FISH Analysis Santiago Munné, Mireia Sandalinas, Esther Velilla, Peter Nagy
CHAPTER 12. Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Transfer in Mouse and Human Oocytes John Zhang, Jamie Grifo, Hui Liu and Lewis Krey

PART II. CLINICAL INSIGHTS

CHAPTER 13. The Clinical Component Pasquale Patrizio
CHAPTER 14. The Technique of Ovarian Transplantation: Laboratory and Clinical Aspects Kutluk Oktay and Erkan Buyuk

PART III

CHAPTER 15. Media used in the ART Laboratories Patrick Quinn
CHAPTER 16. Cryopreservation Protocols Michael J. Tucker, Paula C. Morton, and Juergen Liebermann
CHAPTER 17. Quality Control and Accreditation Brooks A. Keel and Tammie K. Schalue
CHAPTER 18. The Ethics of Stem Cell Therapy Glenn McGee, Pasquale Patrizio, Vanessa Kuhn, and Claire Robertson-Kraft