Nerve growth factor (NGF) levels in follicular fluid of infertile patients undergoing to in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1002-1004

  Palumbo, Marco Antonio ^a   Giuffrida, Eleonora ^a   Gulino, Ferdinando Antonio ^a   Leonardi, Emanuela ^a   Cantarella, Giuseppina ^a   Bernardini, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Folliculogenesis; Infertility; Ovary; Ovulation induction

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ELISA KIT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROLOGY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOGENESIS; OVULATION INDUCTION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84885078202     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2013.829450     Document Type: Article

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