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  1. Since the first report of a decline in semen quality in 1974, there have been several reports of similar declines across populations. Despite some scattered reports of declining semen quality in the Indian sub...

    Authors: Priyanka Mishra, Mahendra Pal Singh Negi, Mukesh Srivastava, Kiran Singh and Singh Rajender

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:103

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  2. Traditional semen parameters have shown little to none predictive value for fertilization and blastocyst viability for a successful pregnancy. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the usefulness...

    Authors: Pamela Tello-Mora, Leticia Hernández-Cadena, Jeimy Pedraza, Esther López-Bayghen and Betzabet Quintanilla-Vega

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:102

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  3. Early human placental development strongly resembles carcinogenesis in otherwise healthy tissues. The progenitor cells of the placenta, the cytotrophoblast, rapidly proliferate to produce a sufficient number o...

    Authors: Rachel C. West, Gerrit J. Bouma and Quinton A. Winger

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:101

    Content type: Review

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  4. FSHR SNPs may influence the ovarian sensitivity to endogenous and exogenous FSH stimulation. Given the paucity of data on the FSHR c.919A > G, c.2039A > G and − 29G > A SNPs in Hispanic population, we here analyz...

    Authors: Gabriela García-Jiménez, Teresa Zariñán, Rocío Rodríguez-Valentín, Nancy R. Mejía-Domínguez, Rubén Gutiérrez-Sagal, Georgina Hernández-Montes, Armando Tovar, Fabián Arechavaleta-Velasco, Patricia Canto, Julio Granados, Hortensia Moreno-Macias, Teresa Tusié-Luna, Antonio Pellicer and Alfredo Ulloa-Aguirre

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:100

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  5. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most prevalent cause of anovulatory infertility and hyperandrogenism. Evidence favors insulin resistance and compensatory hyperinsulinemia as the predominant, perhaps pr...

    Authors: Lei Dou, Yahong Zheng, Lu Li, Xiaowei Gui, Yajuan Chen, Meng Yu and Yi Guo

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:99

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  6. The Sertoli cell is the only somatic cell within the seminiferous tubules, and is vital for testis development and spermatogenesis. Rosiglitazone (RSG) is a member of the thiazolidinedione family and is a pero...

    Authors: Xie Ge, Peng Pan, Jun Jing, Xuechun Hu, Li Chen, Xuhua Qiu, Rujun Ma, Kadiliya Jueraitetibaike, Xuan Huang and Bing Yao

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:98

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  7. Cryptorchidism as a common genitourinary malformation with the serious complication of male infertility draws widespread attention. With several reported miRNAs playing critical roles in spermatogonial stem ce...

    Authors: Zhenyu Huang, Dongdong Tang, Jingjing Gao, Xianming Dou, Peng Cheng, Dangwei Peng, Yao Zhang, Jun Mao, Li Zhang and Xiansheng Zhang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:97

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  8. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a heterogeneous endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age and is commonly complicated by adverse endometrial outcomes. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of no...

    Authors: Xueying Zhang, Ying Xu, Lulu Fu, Dandan Li, Xiaowei Dai, Lianlian Liu, Jingshun Zhang, Lianwen Zheng and Manhua Cui

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:96

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  10. Vitamin D deficiency in women diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) remarkably decreases the chance of pregnancy, which might be related to its impact on metabolic abnormalities in these patients. It...

    Authors: Majid Dastorani, Esmat Aghadavod, Naghmeh Mirhosseini, Fatemeh Foroozanfard, Shahrzad Zadeh Modarres, Mehrnush Amiri Siavashani and Zatollah Asemi

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:94

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  11. Spontaneous abortion is one of the most common complications in early pregnancy. A preventive test to identify women who will experience a miscarriage, even before first symptoms occur, is not established. Act...

    Authors: Alexander Freis, Janina Schlegel, Volker Daniel, Julia Jauckus, Thomas Strowitzki and Ariane Germeyer

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:93

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  12. Evidence suggests that subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) and thyroid autoimmunity (TAI) are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to determine whethe...

    Authors: Meng Rao, Zhengyan Zeng, Shuhua Zhao and Li Tang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:92

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  13. Elevated plasma gonadotropins were associated with desensitization of Sertoli and Leydig cells in the male testis. Testis spermatogenesis ability would be improved via inhibiting high endogenous gonadotropin i...

    Authors: Xuechun Hu, Zheng Ding, Zhiwei Hong, Zhichuan Zou, Yuming Feng, Ruilou Zhu, Jinzhao Ma, Xie Ge, Chaojun Li and Bing Yao

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:91

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  14. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is now widely used as an adjuvant for in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles in poor ovarian responders (PORs). Several studies showed that DHEA supplementation could improve IVF out...

    Authors: Chyi-Uei Chern, Kuan-Hao Tsui, Salvatore Giovanni Vitale, San-Nung Chen, Peng-Hui Wang, Antonio Cianci, Hsiao-Wen Tsai, Zhi-Hong Wen and Li-Te Lin

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:90

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  15. Letrozole is widely employed as ovulation induction agent in women with PCOS, but its use in mild stimulation (MS) protocols for IVF is limited. Aim of the present study was to evaluate the feasibility of a MS...

    Authors: Giuseppe D’Amato, Anna Maria Caringella, Antonio Stanziano, Clementina Cantatore, Simone Palini and Ettore Caroppo

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:89

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  17. Reports of the increasing incidence of male infertility paired with decreasing semen quality have triggered studies on the effects of lifestyle and environmental factors on the male reproductive potential. The...

    Authors: Mahsa Darbandi, Sara Darbandi, Ashok Agarwal, Pallav Sengupta, Damayanthi Durairajanayagam, Ralf Henkel and Mohammad Reza Sadeghi

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:87

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  18. The injection of estradiol valerate in female rats induces polycystic ovary syndrome, which is characterized by polycystic ovaries, anovulation, and hyperandrogenism. These characteristics have been associated...

    Authors: Julieta A. Espinoza, Wendy Alvarado, Berenice Venegas, Roberto Domínguez and Leticia Morales-Ledesma

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:86

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  19. Cisplatin (CDDP), a widely used chemotherapeutic agent, can induce excessive granulosa cell apoptosis, follicle loss and even premature ovarian insufficiency (POI). However, the mechanism remains elusive, alth...

    Authors: Yuping Wu, Congshun Ma, Huihui Zhao, Yuxia Zhou, Zhenguo Chen and Liping Wang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:85

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  20. Tyrosine kinase receptor erythropoietin-producing hepatocellular receptor A2 (EphA2) is abundant in the endometrium and plays a role in the establishment of eutopic implantation. A similar molecular mechanism ...

    Authors: Huan Jiang, Xiao-Yi Yang and Wei-Jie Zhu

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:84

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  21. A molecule identical to nerve growth factor, with ovulation-inducing properties has been discovered in the seminal plasma of South American camelids (ovulation-inducing factor/nerve growth factor; OIF/NGF). We...

    Authors: Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Jaswant Singh and Gregg P. Adams

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:83

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  22. Imprinted genes, which are expressed in a parent of origin-specific manner, are thought to mediate the genetic priorities of each parent in pregnancy. Recently we reported that some fetal imprinted gene varian...

    Authors: Clive J. Petry, Albert Koulman, Liangjian Lu, Benjamin Jenkins, Samuel Furse, Philippa Prentice, Lee Matthews, Ieuan A. Hughes, Carlo L. Acerini, Ken K. Ong and David B. Dunger

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:82

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  25. Mounting evidence shows that ROS regulation by various antioxidants is essential for the expression of enzymes involved in steroidogenesis and maintenance of progesterone production by the corpus luteum (CL). ...

    Authors: Hyo-Jin Park, Dong Gil Lee, Jung Bae Seong, Hyun-Shik Lee, Oh-Shin Kwon, Beom Sik Kang, Jeen-woo Park, Sang-Rae Lee and Dong-Seok Lee

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:79

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  26. Cryptorchidism is one of the most common causes of non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) leading to male infertility. Despite various medical approaches been utilised, many patients still suffer from infertility. ...

    Authors: Dongdong Tang, Zhenyu Huang, Xiaojin He, Huan Wu, Dangwei Peng, Li Zhang and Xiansheng Zhang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:78

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  27. Appropriate classification of obesity is vital for risk assessment and complication prevention during pregnancy. We aimed to explore which pre-pregnancy BMI cut-offs of obesity, either BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 as recommend...

    Authors: Yanxin Wu, Wai-Kit Ming, Dongyu Wang, Haitian Chen, Zhuyu Li and Zilian Wang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:77

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  28. Storage conditions during transportation of explanted ovaries are a critical step in setting up fertility preservation protocols in both animal and human fields. Here, we evaluated the effects of ovary storage...

    Authors: Anna Rita Piras, Giovanni Pietro Burrai, Federica Ariu, Laura Falchi, Maria Teresa Zedda, Salvatore Pau, Sergio Domenico Gadau, Elisabetta Antuofermo, Daniela Bebbere, Sergio Ledda and Luisa Bogliolo

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:76

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  29. Our aim in this study was to investigate morning blood pressure surge (MBPS) in patients of reproductive age with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and its relation to insulin resistance (IR).

    Authors: Hasan Kadi, Eyup Avci, Akin Usta and Abdullah Orhan Demirtaş

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:75

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  30. Pregnancies following assisted reproductive technology (ART) may have elevated potential risk of pregnancy loss (PL) when compared to natural conception. However, rare studies comprehensively analyzed the IVF/...

    Authors: Lingmin Hu, Jiangbo Du, Hong Lv, Jing Zhao, Mengxi Chen, Yifeng Wang, Fang Wu, Feng Liu, Xiaojiao Chen, Junqiang Zhang, Hongxia Ma, Guangfu Jin, Hongbing Shen, Li Chen, Xiufeng Ling and Zhibin Hu

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:74

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  31. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine and metabolic disorder in women. An lncRNA, namely, Prader-Willi region nonprotein coding RNA 2 (PWRN2), was up-regulated in the cumulus cells of patients wi...

    Authors: Xin Huang, Jiaping Pan, Bi Wu and Xiaoming Teng

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:73

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  32. Recently, we demonstrated the three-dimensional (3D) localization of murine trophoblast giant cells in the pregnant uterus using a modified Clear Unobstructed Brain Imaging Cocktails and Computational analysis...

    Authors: Kyosuke Kagami, Yohei Shinmyo, Masanori Ono, Hiroshi Kawasaki and Hiroshi Fujiwara

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:72

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  33. In vivo studies involving molecular markers of the follicle wall associated with follicular fluid (FF) milieu are crucial for a better understanding of follicle dynamics. The inability to obtain in vivo sample...

    Authors: G. M. Ishak, S. T. Bashir, G. A. Dutra, G. D. A. Gastal, M. O. Gastal, C. A. Cavinder, J. M. Feugang and E. L. Gastal

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:71

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  34. What are the underlying socio-demographic factors that lead healthy women to preserve their fertility through elective egg freezing (EEF)? Many recent reviews suggest that women are intentionally postponing fe...

    Authors: M. C. Inhorn, D. Birenbaum-Carmeli, J. Birger, L. M. Westphal, J. Doyle, N. Gleicher, D. Meirow, M. Dirnfeld, D. Seidman, A. Kahane and P. Patrizio

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:70

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  35. In an article published in 2017, we discussed the results of the first part of our study into the morphokinetic development of embryos in relation to follicle diameter and homogeneity of follicular development. O...

    Authors: Semra Kahraman, Caroline Pirkevi Çetinkaya, Murat Çetinkaya, Mehmet Ali Tüfekçi, Cumhur Gökhan Ekmekçi and Markus Montag

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:69

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  36. The association of recombinant FSH plus recombinant LH in 2:1 ratio may be used not only to induce ovulation in anovulatory women with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism but also to achieve multiple follicular deve...

    Authors: F. S. Mennini, A. Marcellusi, R. Viti, C. Bini, A. Carosso, A. Revelli and C. Benedetto

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:68

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  37. Endometriosis is a common condition associated with growth of endometrial-like tissue beyond the uterine cavity. Previous reports have suggested a role for uNK cells in the pathogenesis of endometriosis postul...

    Authors: Josephine A. Drury, Kirstin L. Parkin, Lucy Coyne, Emma Giuliani, Asgerally T. Fazleabas and Dharani K. Hapangama

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:67

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  38. For the first time, thorough morphometrical measurements of primordial ovarian follicles were performed and their age-related changes were investigated in Lithuanian women of the reproductive age.

    Authors: Kristina Lasiene, Donatas Gasiliunas, Nomeda Juodziukyniene and Aleksandras Vitkus

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:66

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  39. Fragile-X-Mental-Retardation-1- (FMR1)-gene is supposed to be a key gene for ovarian reserve and folliculogenesis. It contains in its 5’-UTR a triplet-base-repeat (CGG), that varies between 26 and 34 in general p...

    Authors: Julia Rehnitz, Diego D. Alcoba, Ilma S. Brum, Jens E. Dietrich, Berthe Youness, Katrin Hinderhofer, Birgitta Messmer, Alexander Freis, Thomas Strowitzki and Ariane Germeyer

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:65

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  40. Unicornuate uterus, a congenital uterine malformation resulting from unilateral maldevelopment of Mullerian duct, is more prevalent in women with infertility. Owing to relative rarity of the condition, the evi...

    Authors: Yanrong Chen, Victoria Nisenblat, Puyu Yang, Xinyu Zhang and Caihong Ma

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:64

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  41. To examine the effects of IVF, ICSI and FET, as well as in vitro culture, on the safety of offspring, this study was conducted from the perspective of genetic imprinting to investigate whether assisted reprodu...

    Authors: Menglu Ji, Xingling Wang, Wenbin Wu, Yichun Guan, Jing Liu, Jingyan Wang, Wenxia Liu and Chunyan Shen

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:63

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  42. Melatonin is a potential therapeutic agent for endometriosis, but its molecular mechanism is unclear. Here, we investigated the effect of melatonin on the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in endometriot...

    Authors: Shasha Qi, Lei Yan, Zhao Liu, Yu-lan Mu, Mingjiang Li, Xingbo Zhao, Zi-Jiang Chen and Hui Zhang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:62

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  43. This population-based study was designed to investigate whether consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) is associated with lower serum total testosterone concentration in men 20–39 years old.

    Authors: Liang Chen, Yu-Mei Xie, Jian-Hao Pei, Jian Kuang, Hong-Mei Chen, Zhong Chen, Zhong-Wen Li, Xiao-Ying Fu, Long Wang, Shui-Qing Lai, Shu-Ting Zhang, Zhi-Jiang Chen and Jin-xin Lin

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:61

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  44. It is postulated that women suffered from recurrent implantation failure (RIF) have different endometrial receptivity compared to those who experienced with idiopathic recurrent miscarriage (RM). In this study...

    Authors: Fangrong Wu, Xiaoyan Chen, Yingyu Liu, Bo Liang, Hui Xu, Tin Chiu Li and Chi Chiu Wang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:60

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  45. Our previous study indicated that emergency contraception, including levonorgestrel and progesterone, could lead to ectopic pregnancy following contraception failure. However, our understanding of the effects ...

    Authors: Cheng Li, Hui-Yu Zhang, Yan Liang, Wei Xia, Qian Zhu, Duo Zhang, Zhen Huang, Gui-Lin Liang, Rui-Hong Xue, Hang Qi, Xiao-Qing He, Jiang-Jing Yuan, Ya-Jing Tan, He-Feng Huang and Jian Zhang

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:59

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  46. Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A2 (PAPP-A2) is consistently upregulated in the placentae of pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction. The causes and significance of this upregu...

    Authors: Julian K. Christians, Kendra I. Lennie, Maria F. Huicochea Munoz and Nimrat Binning

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:58

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  47. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Tumor Dissociation Enzyme (TDE) on the viability of follicles after digestion of fresh and cryopreserved ovarian cortex fragments (OCFs).

    Authors: Viola Maria Schmidt, Vladimir Isachenko, Gunter Rappl, Gohar Rahimi, Bettina Hanstein, Bernd Morgenstern, Peter Mallmann and Evgenia Isachenko

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:57

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  48. Spermatogenesis in most mammals (including human and rat) occurs at ~ 3 °C lower than body temperature in a scrotum and fails rapidly at 37 °C inside the abdomen. The present study investigates the heat-sensit...

    Authors: Santosh K. Yadav, Aastha Pandey, Lokesh Kumar, Archana Devi, Bhavana Kushwaha, Rahul Vishvkarma, Jagdamba P. Maikhuri, Singh Rajender and Gopal Gupta

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:56

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  49. Serum leptin levels are augmented in obese infertile men and in men with azoospermia. They also correlate inversely with sperm concentration, motility and normal forms. The mechanisms underlying the adverse ef...

    Authors: Xiaotong Wang, Xiaoke Zhang, Lian Hu and Honggang Li

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:55

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  50. Previous studies have shown that androgens, in addition to serving as precursors for ovarian estrogen synthesis, also have a fundamental role in primate ovarian follicular development by augmentation of FSH re...

    Authors: Jigal Haas, Rawad Bassil, Noa Gonen, Jim Meriano, Andrea Jurisicova and Robert F. Casper

    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2018 16:54

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