High pregnancy rates with administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in ART-patients with repetitive implantation failure and lacking killer-cell immunglobulin-like receptors

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2151-2152

  Würfel, Wolfgang ^a   Santjohanser, Claudia ^a   Hirv, Kaimo ^b   Bühl, Monika ^b   Meri, Osama ^a   Laubert, Ina ^a   Von Hertwig, Irene ^a   Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Krüsmann, Jan ^a   Krüsmann, Gottfried ^a  

^a Fertility Center Munich   (Germany)

^b Laboratory Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ABORTION; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LETTER; MORULA; NIDATION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 77954981490     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq106     Document Type: Letter

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