The levels of steroid hormones and cytokines in individual follicles are not associated with the fertilization outcome after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-64

  Asimakopoulos, Byron ^a   Abu Hassan, Deena ^b   Metzen, Eric ^c   Al Hasani, Safaa ^b   Diedrich, Klaus ^b   Nikolettos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

EGF; Estradiol; fertilization; FGF; IGF I; IL 1 ; IL 6; leptin; progesterone; TNF ; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CYTOKINE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; PROGESTERONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; CYTOKINES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45849128016     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.054     Document Type: Article

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