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Mechanical endometrial injury prior to IVF has been suggested as a means to increase implantation rates by improving endometrial receptivity. However, the effects of endometrial injury in proliferative vs. lut...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:75
Published on: 22 September 2017
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Mural granulosa cells from IVF patients were provided by the West Virginia University Center for Reproductive Medicine in Morgantown, WV. The effect of adenosine monophosphate activated protein kinase (AMPK) a...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:76
Published on: 22 September 2017
Research
Sperm cryopreservation is the most effective method to preserve male fertility but this is normally used for motile spermatozoa. Thus, only motile spermatozoa are used for cryopreservation in most reproductive...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:74
Published on: 18 September 2017
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Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) regulates reproductive processes in the cow. Ovarian granulosa cells play a pivotal role in follicle growth and development. Nevertheless, the role of LPA in the local regulation of...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:72
Published on: 6 September 2017
Review
Uterine natural killer (uNK) cells are short-lived, terminally differentiated and the most abundant lymphocytes in the uterus which play a crucial role in the spiral arteriole modification and establishment of...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:73
Published on: 6 September 2017
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The use of progestin (P) during ovarian stimulation is effective in blocking the luteinizing hormone (LH) surge in women with normal ovarian reserve, however, its effects have not been determined in poor respo...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:71
Published on: 5 September 2017
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For the last year we have been treating normal responders with gonadotropins and letrozole during the whole stimulation in order to improve response to FSH by increasing the intrafollicular androgen concentrat...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:70
Published on: 30 August 2017
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Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1), as a characteristic regulator in meiosis, organizes multiple biological events of cell division. Although Plk1 has been implicated in various functions in somatic cell mitotic proces...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:69
Published on: 29 August 2017
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Missed abortion is a common occurrence for otherwise healthy women. Immunological factor is one of the most important reasons. Tumor necrosis factor-α-induced protein-8 like-2 (TIPE2) is a novel negative immun...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:68
Published on: 29 August 2017
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The World Health Organization (WHO) international body mass index (BMI) cut-off points defining pre-pregnancy BMI categories in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) guidelines are not directly applicable to Asians....
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:67
Published on: 22 August 2017
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Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NACHT), leucine rich repeat (LRR) and pyrin domain (PYD) 7 containing protein, NLRP7, is a member of the NLR family which serves as innate immune sensors. Mutations a...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:66
Published on: 15 August 2017
Review
The Catsper channel is a sperm-specific, Ca2+-permeable, pH-dependent, and low voltage-dependent channel that is essential for the hyperactivity of sperm flagellum, chemotaxis towards the egg, capacitation and ac...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:65
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Endometrial cells secrete various cytokines and the dysfunction of endometrial cells may directly lead to infertility. Interferon tau (IFNT) secreted by trophoblast cells, a well-known pregnancy recognition si...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:63
Published on: 14 August 2017
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Ultrasound elastography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique able to quantitatively characterize the stiffness of a given tissue. It has been shown to predict the risk for cervical insufficiency and pre...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:64
Published on: 14 August 2017
Retraction Note
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:62
Published on: 11 August 2017
The original article was published in Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2015 13:97
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Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), whose aetiology is unknown, is predominately a familial syndrome but confirmation of candidate genes has proved elusive. The developmental hypothesis for the origin of PCOS su...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:61
Published on: 8 August 2017
Short communication
We correlated Anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) levels and other parameters for ovarian reserve to the gestational age at the time of pregnancy loss in women with idiopathic recurrent miscarriage. In a retrospectiv...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:60
Published on: 2 August 2017
Research
Bull fertility is the degree of sperm’s ability to fertilize and activate the egg and support embryo development, and this is critical for herd reproductive performance. We used the bull as a unique model orga...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:59
Published on: 1 August 2017
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Human follicular fluid (HFF) provides a key environment for follicle development and oocyte maturation, and contributes to oocyte quality and in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcome.
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:58
Published on: 27 July 2017
Short Communication
During negative energy balance, the concentration of different fatty acids, especially of oleic acid (OA) increases in the follicular fluid of cattle. Previously, we showed that OA induced morphological, physi...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:57
Published on: 26 July 2017
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We and others have observed that young girls predisposed to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) display defective insulin sensitivity, beta-cell function and non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) suppressibility during ...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:56
Published on: 24 July 2017
Commentary
According to the literature review, CO2 insufflation on parasitic myoma implantation is not well studied, and we concur that our study is related to “Morcellation-induced parasitic myomas.” We did not compare ...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:55
Published on: 20 July 2017
Commentary
The cause of contamination and dissemination of leiomyoma tissue particles and cells in the peritoneal cavity during myomectomy is a challenging issue for both clinicians and researchers. Therefore, the articl...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:54
Published on: 20 July 2017
Research
We previously showed that microRNA-503 (miR-503) transfection into endometriotic cyst stromal cells (ECSCs) induced cell cycle arrest at the G0/G1 phase by suppressing cyclin D1. This finding prompted us to ev...
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:53
Published on: 18 July 2017
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Modeling early endometrial differentiation is a crucial step towards understanding the divergent pathways between normal and ectopic endometrial development as seen in endometriosis.
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2017 15:52
Published on: 17 July 2017
