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After more than 30 years of harvesting oocytes for in vitro fertilization, collection techniques are well established. Presented here are dependable methods for maintaining environmental stability during such procedures and general descriptions of the materials collected.
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Gosden, L.V. (2014). Oocyte Retrieval and Quality Evaluation. In: Rosenwaks, Z., Wassarman, P. (eds) Human Fertility. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1154. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0659-8_16
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