The follicular and endocrine environment in women with endometriosis: Local and systemic cytokine production

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 425-431

  Pellicer, Antonio ^a,b   Albert, Carmela ^a   Mercader, Amparo ^a   Bonilla Musoles, Fernando ^a,b   Remohí, José ^a,b   Simón, Carlos ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Follicular fluid; Granulosa cells; Interleukin 1 ; Interleukin 6; Serum; Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUPRORELIN; NEO FERTINORM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYTOKINES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; LYMPHOKINES; OVULATION INDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0031713897     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00204-0     Document Type: Article

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