Amphiregulin is much more abundantly expressed than transforming growth factor-alpha and epidermal growth factor in human follicular fluid obtained from patients undergoing in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1035-1041

  Inoue, Yoshihito ^a   Miyamoto, Shingo ^a   Fukami, Tatsuya ^a   Shirota, Kyoko ^a   Yotsumoto, Fusanori ^a   Kawarabayashi, Tatsuhiko ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphiregulin; epidermal growth factor; human follicular fluid; IVF ET; transforming growth factor alpha

Indexed keywords

AMPHIREGULIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62949162719     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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