Ovarian stimulation modulates steroid receptor expression and spheroid attachment in peri-implantation endometria: Studies on natural and stimulated cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 764-768

  Chai, Joyce ^a   Lee, Kai Fai ^a   Ng, Ernest H Y ^a   Yeung, William S B ^a   Ho, Pak Chung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

endometrium; Steroid receptors; stimulated cycles

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMPLANTATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARIAN FUNCTION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPHEROID CELL; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; TROPHOBLAST; UPREGULATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BIOPSY; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHORIOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; ISOFLAVONES; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; STEROIDS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052268844     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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