Concentrations of inflammatory cytokines and the outcome in ICSI cycles

In Vivo

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 495-500

  Asimakopoulos, Byron ^a   Demirel, Cem ^b   Felberbaum, Ricardo ^c   Waczek, Steven ^c   Nikolettos, Nikos ^a   Köster, Frank ^d   Al Hasani, Safaa ^d   Diedrich, Klaus ^d  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b ACIBADEM HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interleukin 1 ; Interleukin 6; IVF; Pregnancy; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROGESTERONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77955875396     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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