Assisted reproductive techniques have contributed significantly to alleviating subfertility in
the childless couple. However, the take-home baby rates have been very low throughout the …

Numerous studies have shown, in several species including man, that co-culture with
somatic cells or with conditioned medium can enhance in-vitro development of embryos …

Assisted reproductive techniques (ART) have contributed tremendously to alleviating
infertility in childless couples. However, the" take-home baby" rate for in vitro fertilization …

Objective To evaluate the embryonic behavior in vitro and the pregnancy and implantation
rates of embryos grown in a human ampullary cell coculture system. Design In a prospective …

Co-culture techniques using fetal bovine uterine fibroblasts or bovine oviductal epithelial
cells have improved embryonic development prior to replacement in humans. In initial co …

This study was undertaken to determine the effect of co-culture with human oviductal cells
on human embryos. Spare embryos from gamete intra-Fallopian transfer (GIFT), pronuclear …

Passaged human tubal ampullary epithelial cells from cell lines were used to evaluate
fertilization rates and the support of early human embryonic cleavage in vitro. A total of 225 …

A study was undertaken to evaluate embryonic development and establish pregnancies with
human embryos after in-vitro culture in two different systems. Treatment A consisted of …

Purpose: The efficacy of homologous oviductal cell coculture on the success of a human in
vitro fertilization program was investigated in a prospective randomized control clinical trial …

We read with interest the recent Opinion paper written by Dr Barry D. Bavister (1992)
entitled'Co-culture for embryo development: is it really necessary?'Dr Bavister's paper was …