Recombinant technique and gonadotropins production: New era in reproductive medicine

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-201

  Shoham, Z ^a   Insler, V ^a  

^a KAPLAN HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

DNA; FSH; LH; Recombinant DNA technology; RNA

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN;

CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG SAFETY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; REVIEW; STEROIDOGENESIS; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030015794     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58437-4     Document Type: Review

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