Sex steroids in cervical mucus of spontaneous or induced ovulatory cycles

Steroids

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-7

  Adamopoulos, Dimitrios A ^a   Kapolla, Niki ^a   Abrahamian, Anahit ^a   Dessypris, Athanasios ^a   Nicopoulou, Stamatina ^a   Giannacodemos, George ^a  

^a HELENA VENIZELOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cervical mucus; Estradiol; Progesterone; Sex hormone binding globulin; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE; SERPAFAR; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATURATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX MUCUS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; MUCUS; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033991354     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-128X(99)00074-4     Document Type: Article

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