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01-05-2018 | Editor's Commentary

Naturing and nurturing the competent oocyte: it’s all in the niche

Author: David F. Albertini

Published in: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics | Issue 5/2018

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Despite claims to the contrary, and the currency it carries in human ARTs, harvesting more eggs in the course of infertility treatment is not necessarily a good thing when it comes to truly meaningful outcomes. The “more is better” mentality may have been successfully circumvented in the case of azoospermia, but not so for Mother Nature’s design for monovular species like ourselves. The challenge in human ARTs of obtaining oocytes of the competent variety remains alive and well if any hope of generating embryos obtains for transfers resulting in a term (or near-term) pregnancy. …

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Title: Naturing and nurturing the competent oocyte: it’s all in the niche
Author: David F. Albertini
Publication date: 01-05-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics / Issue 5/2018
Print ISSN: 1058-0468
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10815-018-1220-7

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