Is there an effect of leukonorm®, an immune therapeutic agent, on the improvement of the implantation capacity in the human endometrium?;Besteht ein Effekt des Immuntherapeutikums LeukoNorm® auf die Steigerung der Implantationsfähigkeit im humanen Endometrium?

Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 488-493

  Germeyer, A ^a   Senghaas, A ^a   Strowitzki, T ^a   Von Wolff, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Universitats Frauenklinik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

endometrial gene expression; immune therapeutic agent; implantation failure

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOLOGIC AGENT; LEUKOCYTE ULTRAFILTRATE; LEUKONORM; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEUKOCYTE; NIDATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 77953862539     PISSN: 00165751     EISSN: 14388804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1249950     Document Type: Article

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