Review: Follicular waves in the human ovary: A new physiological paradigm for novel ovarian stimulation protocols

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1067-1076

  De Mello Bianchi, Paulo Homem ^a,b   Serafini, Paulo ^a,b   Monteiro Da Rocha, André ^a   Assad Hassun, Péricles ^c   Alves Da Motta, Eduardo Leme ^a,d   Sampaio Baruselli, Pietro ^b   Chada Baracat, Edmund ^b  

^a Huntington Medicina Reprodutiva   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Genesis Genetics Brasil ^*  (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

controlled ovarian stimulation; follicular dynamics; follicular wave emergence; follicular waves

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; GESTAGEN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROGESTERONE;

CORPUS LUTEUM; DYNAMICS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FOLLICULAR ASPIRATION; FOLLICULAR WAVE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650108447     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719110366483     Document Type: Review

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