Follicular fluid nitric oxide (NO) concentrations in stimulated cycles: The relationship to embryo grading

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 229-232

  Vignini, Arianna ^a   Turi, Angelo ^a   Giannubilo, Stefano Raffaele ^a   Pescosolido, Dario ^a   Scognamiglio, Pasquale ^a   Zanconi, Sara ^a   Silvi, Cecilia ^a   Mazzanti, Laura ^a   Tranquilli, Andrea Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embryo grading; Follicular fluid; Folliculogenesis; IVF ET; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SIZE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; STIMULATION;

ADULT; BLASTOMERES; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE;

EID: 39049109642     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-007-0445-y     Document Type: Article

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