Apoptosis of cultured granulosa-lutein cells is reduced by insulin-like growth factor I and may correlate with embryo fragmentation and pregnancy rate

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 474-480

  Bencomo, Eija ^a   Pérez, Rosa ^a   Arteaga, Mari Francis ^a   Acosta, Elisa ^a   Peña, Oscar ^a   Lopez, Lourdes ^b   Avila, Julio ^a   Palumbo, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b Centro de Asistencia a la Reproduccion Humana de Canarias   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Granulosa lutein cells; IGF I; In vitro fertilization; Insulin

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; INSULIN; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LUTEAL CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; APOPTOSIS; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEAL CELLS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31644438196     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.08.014     Document Type: Article

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