Pictures of IVF eggs with their surrounding cumulus cells - as seen at the egg retrieval procedure
Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago

This picture shows eggs and attached cumulus cells as seen at the egg retrieval procedure
At the top, a pipette is picking up one of the eggs
The actual egg is in the middle of the dark area
This picture is a view with a stereoscopic microscope

Zoomed in detail showing the egg and the tightly packed corona cells around it

This picture shows a similar view using an inverted microscope
Egg (dark area in center) in the middle of it's adherent
mass of hundreds of cumulus cells
Cumulus cells are specialized ovarian cells associated with the egg in the follicle
They remain attached to the egg at ovulation
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