Disorders of implantation - are there diagnostic and therapeutic options?

Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 117-123

  Toth, Bettina ^a   Würfel, Wolfgang ^b   Germeyer, Ariane ^a   Hirv, Kaimo ^c   Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^d   Strowitzki, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Kinderwunsch Centrum   (Germany)

^c Center for Human Genetics and Laboratory Medicine   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

G CSF; Gene expression profile; Gene polymorphisms; KIR profiling; Reproductive surgery

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENDOMETRIUM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMPLANTATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT IMPLANTATION FAILURE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THROMBOPHILIA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TROPHOBLAST;

EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 79959985856     PISSN: 01650378     EISSN: 18727603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jri.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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