Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 477-484 , April 2010

Culture of human oocytes with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor has no effect on embryonic chromosomal constitution

  • Inge Agerholm

      Affiliations

    • The Fertility Clinic, Bræaedstrup Hospital, Sygehusvej 20, 8740 Braedstrup, Denmark
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Anne Loft

      Affiliations

    • The Fertility Clinic, Rigshospitalet section 4071, Copenhagen University Clinic, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Finn Hald

      Affiliations

    • The Fertility Clinic, Bræaedstrup Hospital, Sygehusvej 20, 8740 Braedstrup, Denmark
    • ,
  • Josephine G. Lemmen

      Affiliations

    • The Fertility Clinic, Rigshospitalet section 4071, Copenhagen University Clinic, Copenhagen, Denmark
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  • Bibi Munding

      Affiliations

    • Medicult a/s, 4040 Jyllinge, Denmark
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  • Pernille D. Sørensen

      Affiliations

    • Medicult a/s, 4040 Jyllinge, Denmark
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  • Søren Ziebe

      Affiliations

    • The Fertility Clinic, Rigshospitalet section 4071, Copenhagen University Clinic, Copenhagen, Denmark

Received 26 June 2009 ,Revised 20 July 2009 ,Accepted 30 November 2009.

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 Inge Agerholm has been laboratory director at the Fertility Clinic at Brædstrup Hospital, Brædstrup Denmark, since 1996. In 2007 she obtained a PhD degree from University of Aarhus. The thesis described the relation between morphology and chromosome constitution of human embryos. She is currently a board member of the Danish Fertility Society and the Nordic IVF Laboratory Society as well as a National Representative in ESHRE. Her main interest is early embryo development and selection together with aneuploidy in human embryos.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.026

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 477-484 , April 2010

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