Content: Foreword Preface Acknowledgements A REVIEW OF HUMAN GAMETES AND CONCEPTUSES Gamete Maturation The Human Oocyte The Human Spermatozoon The Sperm-Penetrated Human Oocyte The Cleaving Human Preembryo Preembryo Grading and Degree of Cytoplasmic Fragmentation Preembryos with the Ability to Implant Abnormal Morphology of the Human Oocyte and Conceptus Cryopreservation Assisted Fertilization by Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) Assisted Hatching and Fragment Removal Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) Epilogue Appendix HUMAN GAMETES AND CONCEPTUSES ILLUSTRATED Index. ISBN: 1-85070-016-8 216 pages (Hardback) Color illustrated 98-26503 Published: April 1999 $149.95 / GBP100