Follicular fluid steroid hormone levels are associated with fertilization outcome after intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 952-957

  Lamb, Julie D ^a   Zamah, A Musa ^a   Shen, Shehua ^a   McCulloch, Charles ^b   Cedars, Marcelle I ^a   Rosen, Mitchell P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

estradiol; fertilization outcomes; follicular aspirate; Follicular fluid; FSH; hormone levels; steroid hormones; testosterone

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FOLLICULAR ASPIRATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FOLLICULAR FLUID; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 77955571112     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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