Evidence of intraovarian follicular dominance effects during controlled ovarian stimulation in a sheep model

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1507-1513

  Gonzalez Bulnes, Antonio ^a,b   Veiga Lopez, Almudena ^a,c  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

dominance; embryo; follicular status; Ovarian stimulation; sheep

Indexed keywords

CLOPROSTENOL; FLUGESTONE ACETATE; FOLLITROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED OVARIAN STIMULATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAOVARIAN FOLLICLE DOMINANCE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHEEP;

EID: 43549092844     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.037     Document Type: Article

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