A Colour Atlas of for Human Assisted Reproduction: Laboratory & Clinic

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 BuyukPART 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