Peritoneal fluid concentrations of progesterone in women are higher close to the corpus luteum compared with elsewhere in the abdominal cavity

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 306-310

  Cicinelli, Ettore ^a   Einer Jensen, Niels ^b   Hunter, Ronald H F ^c   Cignarelli, Mauro ^d   Cignarelli, Angelo ^e   Colafiglio, Giuseppe ^a   Tinelli, Raffaele ^a   Pinto, Vincenzo ^a  

^a POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corpus luteum; laparoscopy; peritoneal fluid; progesterone

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UTERINE TUBE; UTERINE TUBE STERILIZATION;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; ADULT; ASCITIC FLUID; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROSCOPY; OVULATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGESTERONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67649259194     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.044     Document Type: Article

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