N-Acetylcysteine improves oocyte and embryo quality in polycystic ovary syndrome patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection: An alternative to metformin

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 723-731

  Cheraghi, Ebrahim ^a   Mehranjani, Malek Soleimani ^a   Shariatzadeh, Mohammad Ali ^a   Esfahani, Mohammad Hossein Nasr ^b   Ebrahimi, Zahra ^c  

^a ARAK UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ROYAN INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOMEDICINE   (Iran)

^c Infertility Treatment Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

fertilisation rate; follicular fluid; ovulation induction.

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALONALDEHYDE; METFORMIN; PLACEBO; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL, AGE AND GROWTH PARAMETERS; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO; EMBRYO QUALITY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; FOLLICULAR ASPIRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE QUALITY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; ECTOGENESIS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; IRAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT DROPOUT; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIOXIDANTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR FLUID; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; IRAN; METFORMIN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84964989266     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: 14485990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD14182     Document Type: Article

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