Mechanisms of action of intrauterine devices

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 51, Issue 12 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Ortiz, María Elena ^b   Croxatto, Horacio B ^b   Bardin, C Wayne ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE STERILIZATION; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GAMETE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE STERILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE TUBE;

EID: 0030455615     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006254-199612000-00014     Document Type: Review

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