The human corpus luteum: life cycle and function in natural cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1067-1079

  Devoto, Luigi ^a   Fuentes, Ariel ^a   Kohen, Paulina ^a   Céspedes, Pablo ^a   Palomino, Alberto ^a   Pommer, Ricardo ^a   Muñoz, Alex ^a   Strauss III, Jerome F ^b  

^a HOSPITAL SAN BORJA ARRIARÁN   (Chile)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human corpus luteum function; natural cycles; steroidogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CORPUS LUTEUM; CORPUS LUTEUM FUNCTION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; FERTILITY; GRANULOSA CELL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE; LUTEAL CELL; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEOLYSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OVARY FUNCTION; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; THECA CELL; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZATION; LUTEOLYSIS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY;

EID: 69249220310     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.07.1745     Document Type: Article

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