L-carnitine supplementation reduces oocyte cytoskeleton damage and embryo apoptosis induced by incubation in peritoneal fluid from patients with endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 5 SUPPL., 2009, Pages 2079-2086

  Mansour, Gihan ^a,b   Abdelrazik, Hussein ^a,b   Sharma, Rakesh K ^a   Radwan, Emad ^b   Falcone, Tommaso ^a   Agarwal, Ashok ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Suez Canal University Hospital   (Egypt)

Author keywords

antioxidant; chromosomes; embryo; endometriosis; L carnitine; microtubules; oocytes

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPPLEMENTATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ASCITIC FLUID; CARNITINE; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; STERILIZATION REVERSAL;

EID: 65049088219     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.02.097     Document Type: Article

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