Androgens and poor responders: Are we ready to take the plunge into clinical therapy?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1062-1065

  Fanchin, Renato ^a   Frydman, Nelly ^a   Even, Marc ^a   Berwanger Da Silva, Ana Luisa ^a   Grynberg, Michaël ^a   Ayoubi, Jean Marc ^b  

^a HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^b FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Androgens; DHEA; FORT; poor responders; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYCLIC AMP; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NONHUMAN; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIRILIZATION;

EID: 80054973508     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.09.050     Document Type: Article

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