Day 3 serum inhibin-B is predictive of assisted reproductive technologies outcome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 110-114

  Seifer, David B ^a,b,c   Lambert Messerlian, Geralyn ^a,b   Hogan, Joseph W ^a   Gardiner, Alice C ^a,b   Blazar, Andrew S ^a,b   Berk, Carol A ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ART; Inhibin B; ovarian reserve

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN; LEUPRORELIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031020915     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81865-1     Document Type: Article

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