Follicular fluid levels of vascular endothelial growth factor and leptin are associated with pregnancy outcome of normal women participating in intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles

Physiological Research

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 263-270

  Asimakopoulos, Byron ^a   Nikolettos, N ^a   Papachristou, D N ^b   Simopoulou, M ^a   Al Hasani, S ^c   Diedrich, K ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Follicular fluid IVF; Leptin; Tumor necrosis factor ; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; LEPTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GREECE; HUMANS; LEPTIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 21844471042     PISSN: 08628408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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