Progesterone serum levels during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle originate from the crosstalk between the ovaries and the adrenal cortex

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 933-939

  De Geyter, Christian ^a,d   De Geyter, Maria ^a   Huber, Peter R ^b   Nieschlag, Eberhard ^c   Holzgreve, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d Division Gyn Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

17 Hydroxyprogesterone; Adrenal cortex; Granulosa; Progesterone; Theca interna

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DECAPEPTYL RETARD; DESOGESTREL PLUS ETHINYLESTRADIOL; DEXAMETHASONE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; LONG ACTING DRUG; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; TRIPTORELIN;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GONADOTROPIN RELEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY; OVULATION; PATIENT SCHEDULING; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THECA CELL;

FALLOPIA;

EID: 0036103045     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.4.933     Document Type: Article

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