Features of follicle-stimulating hormone-stimulated follicles in a sheep model: keys to elucidate embryo failure in assisted reproductive technique cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 1328-1337

  Veiga Lopez, Almudena ^a   Dominguez, Veronica ^a   Souza, Carlos J H ^b   Garcia Garcia, Rosa M ^a   Ariznavarreta, Carmen ^c   Tresguerres, Jesus A F ^c   McNeilly, Alan S ^d   Gonzalez Bulnes, Antonio ^a,c  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dominance; embryo; follicular status; Ovarian stimulation; sheep

Indexed keywords

CLOPROSTENOL; ESTROGEN; FLUGESTONE ACETATE; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRUS CYCLE; EWE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SHEEP; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO LOSS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SHEEP; SUPEROVULATION;

EID: 43549093304     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.02.034     Document Type: Article

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