Systemic Inflammation Is Associated with Ovarian Follicular Dynamics during the Human Menstrual Cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Clancy, Kathryn B H ^a   Baerwald, Angela R ^b   Pierson, Roger A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878053668     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064807     Document Type: Article

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