Administration of a pharmacophysiologic dose of recombinant human chorionic gonadotropin at menses promotes corpus luteum rescue

International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 158-159

  Gomes, Claudia M ^a,b   Serafini, Paulo C ^a,b   Motta, Eduardo L A ^a,b   Rocha, Andre M ^b   Yadid, Isaac M ^c   Baracat, Edmund C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Huntington Reproductive Medicine   (Brazil)

^c Huntington Reproductive Medicine Centre   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Progesterone secretion; Recombinant human chorionic gonadotropin; Rescued corpus luteum

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS LUTEUM; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; MENSTRUATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 73749087204     PISSN: 00207292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijgo.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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