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Learn about different ways drugs are delivered to the body and the detailed steps involved in in vitro fertilization. This includes stimulating ovulation, harvesting eggs and sperm, sorting sperm, injecting sperm into eggs, checking fertilization, and more.
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Steps in in vitro fertilization • Stimulate ovulation in female patient • Harvest eggs • Harvest sperm • Sort sperm • Place egg and sperm in micromanipulator • Inject sperm into egg • Check for fertilization • Wait for embryo to develop into blastocyst (5 days) • Place blastocyst into the endometrial lining of the mother
From Schuster et al, 2003, figure taken from Suh et al, 2003