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micromanipulation

 [mi″kro-mah-nip″u-la´shun]
1. surgery, injection, dissection, or other techniques done with micromanipulators.
2. in male factor infertility, the processing of gametes, as by partial removal of the zona pellucida or direct injection of sperm into the egg, in order to increase the possibility of fertilization.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

mi·cro·ma·nip·u·la·tion

(mī'krō-mă-nip'yū-lā'shŭn),
Dissection, teasing, stimulation, etc., under the microscope, of minute structures; for example, tissue cells or unicellular organisms.
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mi·cro·ma·nip·u·la·tion

(mī'krō-mă-nip'yū-lā'shŭn)
Dissection, stimulation, and other mechanical operations performed on minute structures under the microscope.
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The results have been published in an article entitled 'Using micromanipulation to analyze control of vertebrate meiotic spindle size' in Cell Reports, an online journal from Cell Press.
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Impairment of the hatching process following IVF in the human and improvement of implantation by assisting hatching using micromanipulation. Hum Reprod.
It requires the use of three integrated technologies: conventional (IVF), micromanipulation of single cells, and genetic analysis of the single cell.
The surgical resolution of vitreoretinal diseases involves the micromanipulation of very fragile structures.
The XYRCOS offers additional benefits for cutting-edge embryo micromanipulation applications such as the creation of transgenic animals, gene targeting, and stem cell research including blastocyst injection, 8-eell injection, and laser-assisted animal model IVF.
Micromanipulation techniques, such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) applied to sperm and ova in vitro (in-vitro fertilisation [IVF]), allow sperm with limited intrinsic fertilizing capacity to produce viable embryos.
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