Evaluation of the relationship between follicular fluid oxidative stress, ovarian hormones, and response to gonadotropin stimulation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 912-921

  Appasamy, Malathy ^a   Jauniaux, Eric ^a   Serhal, Paul ^b   Al Qahtani, Ahmed ^c   Groome, Nigel P ^c   Muttukrishna, Shanthi ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMH; Follicular fluid; infertility; inhibin B; ovarian reserve; ovarian response; oxidative stress; total antioxidant capacity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN A; INHIBIN B; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVINS; ADULT; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; ANTIOXIDANTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GONADAL HORMONES; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INHIBINS; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41749099496     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.04.034     Document Type: Article

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