Interleukin-2 production in whole blood cell cultures of women undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation for assisted reproduction technology cycles

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 220-223

  Orvieto, Raoul ^a,b   Leites, Tatiana ^a,b   Abir, Ronit ^a,b   Bar, Jacob ^a,b   Yoeli, Rakefet ^a,b   Feldberg, Dov ^a,b   Fisch, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Immune response; Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome; Ovulation induction; Sex steroids

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INTERLEUKIN 2; LONG ACTING DRUG; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TRIPTORELIN;

ADULT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELL CULTURE; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INFLAMMATION; MITOGENESIS; MONOCYTE; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPERNATANT;

ADULT; BLOOD CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 0041425253     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2003.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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