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I. In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer and Social Concerns
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From page 15...
... this chapter briefly airlines sad major areas ~ which adders research In Chic reproductive biology and IVAN wand make large contributions. Infertility Infertility Is defined in mark ways.
From page 16...
... me overall decline masks an Case In infertility ardors women urger 30 year:; of age, arm an insane face a~r~x~nat=ly 700,000 to nearly me million infertile cables with no children (National Cents for Health Statistics, 1985~. Alth - ah these figures give a rough approximation of the feamdity of an ~ 1982, they do not indicate the mob of men and women who want a child and are experiencir~ difficulty conceiving.
From page 17...
... . Treatments for Infertility Infertility can be treated in a variety of ways, including ensuring that the infertile couple know how to pinpoint the time of ovulation, eliminating causes of infertility such as infectious diseases or endometriosis, evaluating sperm seminal fluid, using fertility drugs to induce ovulation, performing surging repair procedures in the male or female, and emptying artificial ir~oination.
From page 18...
... Just before the timed ovulation ~d char, Locates am Caved fen the ovary either la~r~ or by rile aspiration guided bar ultrasorx~ra~hy. me eggs, with their adherent reverse cells, are places in a petri dish so that their state of maturation can be as ~ s ~ using the state of dispersion of the attached Otis as a marker.
From page 19...
... Excess eggs collected from one female donor patient undergoing IVFET can be fertilized and implant ~ in a recipient uterus which has been synchronized with the donor's cycle. Artificial insemination using donor spermatozoa is a common technique.
From page 20...
... . By 1985, a.c-=isted Option was the rearm in dairy axes, with 70 percent fertilized by artificial Action; 100,000 embryo transfers vow performed In the United Staff In 1984, and 200,000worldwide, of Airs 25 parent were with frozen Embryos.
From page 21...
... In 1988 We poss~ili~ se of further inverts In the reproductive efficierx~y of focxi-pr~cing anions; We Granada Corporation chains that Anises for cloning animals were n~rir~ commercial abdication (Schneider, 1988~. me devel~nt of pro for the control of reproduction In d~ic animus has core fmn universities, nonprofit relearn ~ institutions,- art Dial organizations.
From page 22...
... Primate for Rearm me armoire battle between life preservationists arm scientists who use primates for Irk purism is a final illustration of the far reaching implications of develc~nts in reproductive teleologies.
From page 23...
... 1988. Gene Expression in Folly Embryonic Development Paper Presented at the Institute of Medicine, Board on Agriculture, Works p on the Chic Science Formations of Medically Assist Conception, Irvine, =1 ifornia, it.
From page 24...
... In Vitro Fertilization, Gamed Intrnfall~ian Transfer, and Donald Gaelic arm Embryos.


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