Could empirical low-dose-aspirin administration during IVF cycle affect both the oocytes and embryos quality via COX 1-2 activity inhibition?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 261-268

  Gizzo, Salvatore ^a,b   Capuzzo, Denise ^a   Zicchina, Cecilia ^a   Di Gangi, Stefania ^a   Coronella, Maria Lia ^a   Andrisani, Alessandra ^a   Gangemi, Michele ^a   Nardelli, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embryo quality; IVF outcome; Low dose aspirin administration; Oocyte quality; Ovarian response

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO QUALITY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GERMINAL VESICLE; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION CYCLE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE FERTILIZATION RATE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE QUALITY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARIAN RESPONSIVENESS; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FUNCTION; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ASPIRIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84896078854     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0174-7     Document Type: Article

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