The origin of serum progesterone during the follicular phase of menotropin-stimulated cycles

Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 9-14

  Eldar Geva, Talia ^a,b   Margalioth, Ehud J ^a   Brooks, Baruch ^a   Algur, Nurit ^a   Zylber Haran, Edith ^a   Diamant, Yoram Z ^a  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MONASH IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Dexamethasone; Follicular phase; In vitro fertilization; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTODOXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ADULT; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0031950928     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/13.1.9     Document Type: Article

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