Concentration of vascular endothelial growth factor released by cultured human luteinized granulosa cells is higher in women with polycystic ovaries than in women with normal ovaries

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1164-1169

  Agrawal, Rina ^a,b   Jacobs, Howard ^a   Payne, Nadia ^a   Conway, Gerard ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Hallam Medical Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human granulosa lutein cells; Normal ovaries; Polycystic ovaries; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; VASCULOTROPIN; XANTHOPHYLL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SECRETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEINIZATION; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVARY; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ADULT; BLOOD; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GRANULOSA CELLS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LUTEINIZATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LYMPHOKINES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0036903461     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(02)04242-5     Document Type: Article

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