Effect of human hydrosalpinx fluid on the development of mouse embryos and role of the concentration of growth factors in culture medium with and without hydrosalpinx fluid

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-29

  Loutradis, Dimitris ^a   Stefanidis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Kousidis, Ioannis ^a   Bletsa, Ritsa ^a   Drakakis, Peter ^a   Milingos, Spyros ^a   Makris, Nikolaus ^a   Michalas, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blastocysts; Culture medium; Epidermal growth factor; Hydrosalpinx fluid; Insulin like growth factor 1

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HYDROSALPINX; LIQUID; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUPEROVULATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTULA; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FALLOPIAN TUBE DISEASES; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MICE;

EID: 15944395119     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09513590400020872     Document Type: Article

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