Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 19, Issue 4 , Pages 514-520, October 2009

Metaphase II karyoplast transfer from human in-vitro matured oocytes to enuclueated mature oocytes

  • Atsushi Tanaka

      Affiliations

    • Saint Mother Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic and Institute for ART, 4-9-12, Orio, Yahata-Nishi, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 807-0825, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence:
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  • Motoi Nagayoshi

      Affiliations

    • Saint Mother Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic and Institute for ART, 4-9-12, Orio, Yahata-Nishi, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 807-0825, Japan
  • ,
  • Shoichiro Awata

      Affiliations

    • Saint Mother Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic and Institute for ART, 4-9-12, Orio, Yahata-Nishi, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 807-0825, Japan
  • ,
  • Norio Himeno

      Affiliations

    • Saint Mother Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic and Institute for ART, 4-9-12, Orio, Yahata-Nishi, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 807-0825, Japan
  • ,
  • Izumi Tanaka

      Affiliations

    • Saint Mother Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic and Institute for ART, 4-9-12, Orio, Yahata-Nishi, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka 807-0825, Japan
  • ,
  • Seiji Watanabe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Kusunoki

      Affiliations

    • Faunal Diversity Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Received 27 November 2008; received in revised form 12 December 2008; accepted 1 June 2009. published online 02 August 2010.

Declaration: The authors report no financial or commercial conflicts of interest.

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 Dr Atsushi Tanaka is one of the pioneers of Japanese private infertility clinic. He obtained his PhD in 1981 at the Juntendo University (Tokyo, Japan), where he worked from 1975 to 1981 in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. After working at the Koshigaya Municipal Hospital (Saitama, Japan), where he performed the first successful GIFT (gamete intra-Fallopian transfer) in Japan, he started the Saint Mother Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic and Institute for ART (Fukuoka, Japan) in 1988. His current interest lies in a wide range of human infertility.Dr Atsushi Tanaka

PII: S1472-6483(09)00014-5

doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.06.004

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 19, Issue 4 , Pages 514-520, October 2009