Repeated implantation failure: A new potential treatment option

European Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 380-384

  Makrigiannakis, Antonis ^a   Benkhalifa, Moncef ^b   Vrekoussis, Thomas ^c   Mahjub, Sami ^d   Kalantaridou, Sophia N ^c   Gurgan, Timur ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^d IVF center   (Tunisia)

^e HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Implantation; in vitro fertilization; Peripheral blood mononuclear cells; Repeated implantation failure

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECIDUALIZATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED IMPLANTATION FAILURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERUS CAVITY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NIDATION; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION; UTERUS;

ADULT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UTERUS;

EID: 84925861960     PISSN: 00142972     EISSN: 13652362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eci.12417     Document Type: Article

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