Reduction of progesterone receptor expression in human cumulus cells at the time of oocyte collection during IVF is associated with good embryo quality

Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2194-2200

  Hasegawa, Junichi ^a   Yanaihara, Atsushi ^a   Iwasaki, Shinji ^a   Otsuka, Yukiko ^a   Negishi, Momoko ^a   Akahane, Tomoko ^a   Okai, Takashi ^a  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cumulus cells; Follicular fluid progesterone; Human embryo morphology; IVF; Progesterone receptors

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PREDICTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; BLASTOCYST; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLASTOCYST; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 25144463244     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dei005     Document Type: Article

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