Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor as a potential inducer of ovulation in infertile women with luteinized unruptured follicle syndrome

Translational Research

Volumn 171, Issue , 2016, Pages 63-70

  Shibata, Takeo ^a   Makinoda, Satoru ^a   Waseda, Tomoo ^a   Tomizawa, Hideki ^a   Fujii, Ryota ^a   Utsunomiya, Takafumi ^b  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b St Luke Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; FOLLITROPIN; LENOGRASTIM; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; LUTEINIZED UNRUPTURED FOLLICLE SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY DISEASE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; OVULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SYNDROME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; SYNDROME;

EID: 84960915919     PISSN: 19315244     EISSN: 18781810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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