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Review
. 2022 Sep 4;10(9):2184.
doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10092184.

Methods for Assessing Oocyte Quality: A Review of Literature

Yassir Lemseffer  1   2 , Marie-Emilie Terret  3 , Clément Campillo  4 , Elsa Labrune  1   2   5
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Methods for Assessing Oocyte Quality: A Review of Literature

Yassir Lemseffer et al. Biomedicines. .

Abstract

The rate of infertility continues to rise in the world for several reasons, including the age of conception and current lifestyle. We list in this paper potential non-invasive and invasive techniques to assess oocyte quality. We searched the database PubMed using the terms "oocytes AND quality AND evaluation". In the first part, we study the morphological criteria, compartment by compartment, to then focus in a second part on more objective techniques such as genetics, molecular, apoptosis, or human follicular fluid that contain biologically active molecules. The main criteria used to assess oocyte quality are morphological; however, several other techniques have been studied in women to improve oocyte quality assessment, but most of them are invasive and not usable in routine.

Keywords: apoptosis; follicular fluid; genetics; morphology; oocytes; polarized light; quality.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.

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Figure 1
Criteria used or studied to assess oocyte quality.
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Figure 2
Time sequence to assess oocyte quality in daily practice.
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