Predictive value of serum and follicular fluid leptin concentrations during assisted reproductive cycles in normal women and in women with the polycystic ovarian syndrome

Human Reproduction

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 539-544

  Mantzoros, Christos S ^a   Cramer, Daniel W ^a   Liberman, Rebecca F ^b   Barbieri, Robert L ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Fertility; Follicular fluid; Leptin; Polycystic ovarian syndrome

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEPTIN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE FLUID; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREGNANCY TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0034011739     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/15.3.539     Document Type: Article

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