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  1. In the last decades, several steps have been made aiming at rendering human IVF more successful on one side, more tolerable on the other side. The "mild" ovarian stimulation approach, in which a lower-than-ave...

    Authors: Alberto Revelli, Simona Casano, Francesca Salvagno and Luisa Delle Piane
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:25
  2. The objective of the present study was to isolate and purify the protein fraction(s) of llama seminal plasma responsible for the ovulation-inducing effect of the ejaculate.

    Authors: Marcelo H Ratto, Louis TJ Delbaere, Yvonne A Leduc, Roger A Pierson and Gregg P Adams
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:24
  3. Though a widely utilized term and clinical concept, ovarian reserve (OR) has been only inadequately defined. Based on Medline and PubMed searches we here define OR in its various components, review genetic con...

    Authors: Norbert Gleicher, Andrea Weghofer and David H Barad
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:23
  4. We have previously demonstrated that four members of the family of small leucine-rich-proteoglycans (SLRPs) of the extracellular matrix (ECM), named decorin, biglycan, lumican and fibromodulin, are deeply remo...

    Authors: Renato M Salgado, Rodolfo R Favaro and Telma MT Zorn
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:22
  5. Some adult stem cells persist in adult tissue; however, we do not know how to stimulate stem cells in adults to heal injuries. Liver growth factor (LGF) is a biliprotein with hepatic mitogen activity. Its conc...

    Authors: Miriam Pérez-Crespo, Eva Pericuesta, Serafín Pérez-Cerezales, Maria I Arenas, Maria VT Lobo, Juan J Díaz-Gil and Alfonso Gutierrez-Adan
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:21
  6. In higher primates, although LH/CG play a critical role in the control of corpus luteum (CL) function, the direct effects of progesterone (P4) in the maintenance of CL structure and function are unclear. Sever...

    Authors: Padmanaban S Suresh, Kadthur C Jayachandra and Rudraiah Medhamurthy
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:20
  7. The clinical results of in vitro fertilization of slowly frozen-thawed oocytes are known to be significantly worse than those obtained by fresh oocytes. Little is known about the factors affecting the clinical ou...

    Authors: Irma Virant-Klun, Liljana Bacer-Kermavner, Tomaz Tomazevic and Eda Vrtacnik-Bokal
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:19
  8. BMP4 is a member of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFbeta) superfamily and Noggin is a potent BMP inhibitor that exerts its function by binding to BMPs preventing interactions with its receptors. The ai...

    Authors: Isabel La Rosa, Luiz SA Camargo, Michele M Pereira, Rafael Fernandez-Martin, Dante A Paz and Daniel F Salamone
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:18
  9. We earlier reported a simple specific test for detection of anti-ovarian antibodies in infertile women and identified number of specific molecular and cellular targets of which human heat shock protein 90-beta...

    Authors: Eusebio S Pires, Asmita K Choudhury, Susan Idicula-Thomas and Vrinda V Khole
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:16
  10. Relaxin hormone peptide is found in porcine follicular and utero-tubal fluids, but its possible actions during early embryo development are still undetermined. Here, we investigated the effects of porcine rela...

    Authors: Jean M Feugang, Jonathan M Greene, Scott T Willard and Peter L Ryan
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:15
  11. The endometrium is a dynamic tissue whose changes are driven by the ovarian steroidal hormones. Its main function is to provide an adequate substrate for embryo implantation. Using microarray technology, sever...

    Authors: Alejandro Tapia, Cristian Vilos, Juan Carlos Marín, Horacio B Croxatto and Luigi Devoto
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:14
  12. Premature rupture of fetal membranes (PROM) complicated with intrauterine infection has been associated to alterations of the extracellular matrix (ECM) homeostasis. The aim of this work was to evaluate the in...

    Authors: Veronica Zaga-Clavellina, Guadalupe Garcia-Lopez, Arturo Flores-Pliego, Horacio Merchant-Larios and Felipe Vadillo-Ortega
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:13
  13. Male pseudohermaphroditism is a sex differentiation disorder in which the gonads are testes and the genital ducts are incompletely masculinized. An 8 years old dog with normal male karyotype was referred for e...

    Authors: Enrico Bigliardi, Pietro Parma, Paolo Peressotti, Lisa De Lorenzi, Peter Wohlsein, Benedetta Passeri, Stefano Jottini and Anna Maria Cantoni
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:12
  14. The African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis, is widely used in studies of oogenesis, meiotic cell cycle and early embryonic development. However, in order to perform such studies, eggs are normally collected after th...

    Authors: Aoi Ogawa, Junpei Dake, Yu-ki Iwashina and Toshinobu Tokumoto
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:11
  15. Relaxin is a small peptide also known as pregnancy hormone in many mammals. It is synthesized by both male and female tissues, and its secretions are found in various body fluids such as plasma serum, ovarian ...

    Authors: Jean M Feugang, Juan C Rodriguez-Munoz, Scott T Willard, Ross A Bathgate and Peter L Ryan
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:10
  16. Natural Killer (NK) cells are the most abundant lymphocytes in the decidua during early gestation. The interactions of NK cells with the extravillous cytotrophoblast have been associated with a normal spiral a...

    Authors: Elly N Sánchez-Rodríguez, Sonia Nava-Salazar, C Adriana Mendoza-Rodríguez, Carlos Moran, Juan F Romero-Arauz, Enrique Ortega, Julio Granados, Alicia Cervantes-Peredo and Marco Cerbón
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:8
  17. Recent research show that polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) may have an association with low-grade chronic inflammation, IL-18 is considered as a strong risk marker of inflammation.

    Authors: Yan Yang, Jie Qiao, Rong Li and Mei-Zhi Li
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:7
  18. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain on perinatal outcomes in a population of Korean women.

    Authors: Sae-Kyung Choi, In-Yang Park and Jong-chul Shin
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:6
  19. Commercial swine breeds in North America undergo two waves of spontaneous fetal loss; one during peri-attachment and another during mid-gestation. Although an exact mechanism for this loss is not known, defici...

    Authors: Andrew K Edwards, Marianne J van den Heuvel, Jocelyn M Wessels, Jonathan LaMarre, B Anne Croy and Chandrakant Tayade
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:5
  20. To determine: in vitro binding affinity of equol for 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (5alpha-DHT), in vitro effects of equol treatment in human prostate cancer (LNCap) cells, and in vivo effects of equol on rat prosta...

    Authors: Trent D Lund, Crystal Blake, Lihong Bu, Amy N Hamaker and Edwin D Lephart
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:4
  21. In vitro maturation of ovarian follicles, in combination with cryopreservation, might be a valuable method for preserving and/or restoring fertility in mammals with impaired reproductive function. Several culture...

    Authors: Stefania A Nottola, Sandra Cecconi, Serena Bianchi, Cecilia Motta, Gianna Rossi, Maria A Continenza and Guido Macchiarelli
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:3
  22. Gonadal differentiation in the mammalian fetus involves a complex dose-dependent genetic network. Initiation and progression of fetal ovarian and testicular pathways are accompanied by dynamic expression patte...

    Authors: Katie J Torley, Juliano C da Silveira, Peter Smith, Russell V Anthony, DN Rao Veeramachaneni, Quinton A Winger and Gerrit J Bouma
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011 9:2
  23. We recently showed that women with four clinical phenotypes of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) do not demonstrate anatomical evidence of elevated prenatal androgen exposure as judged by a lower ratio of the i...

    Authors: Marla E Lujan, Amanda J Podolski, Donna R Chizen, Denis C Lehotay and Roger A Pierson
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:156
  24. Developmental and global regulation of mRNA translation plays a major role in regulating gene expression in mammalian spermatogenic cells. Sucrose gradients are widely used to analyze mRNA translation. Unfortu...

    Authors: Kenneth C Kleene, Jana Bagarova, Sabrina K Hawthorne and Leah M Catado
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:155
  25. Sox9 (Sry box containing gene 9) is a DNA-binding transcription factor involved in chondrocyte development and sex determination. The protein's absence in testicular Sertoli nurse cells has been shown to disrupt ...

    Authors: Aurélie Lardenois, Frédéric Chalmel, Francisco Barrionuevo, Philippe Demougin, Gerd Scherer and Michael Primig
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:154
  26. Constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) is a variation of the onset and timing of pubertal development without a defined endocrine abnormality. Recently published studies indicate that leptin and ghr...

    Authors: Mervat M El-Eshmawy, Ibrahim A Abdel Aal and Amany K El hawary
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:153
  27. Inflammatory processes and infections of the uterine wall must be accepted as a physiological event in dairy cows after calving. This might result in clinical or subclinical endometritis which is assumed to im...

    Authors: Christoph Gabler, Claudia Fischer, Marc Drillich, Ralf Einspanier and Wolfgang Heuwieser
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:152
  28. Lipocalin-2 is a novel adipokine that appears to play a role in the development of insulin resistance. Serum lipocalin-2 levels are elevated in obese patients. Obesity and insulin resistance are cardinal chara...

    Authors: Dimitrios Panidis, Konstantinos Tziomalos, Ekaterini Koiou, Eleni A Kandaraki, Elena Tsourdi, Dimitrios Delkos, Emmanuil Kalaitzakis and Ilias Katsikis
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:151
  29. Although insulin-like 3 (INSL3) has been identified in the gonad of both sexes in many species, there are only limited reports on the distribution of INSL3 and its receptor, relaxin/insulin-like family peptide...

    Authors: Carol B Hanna, Shan Yao, Maristela C Patta, Jeffrey T Jensen and Xuemei Wu
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:150
  30. The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the hyaluronic acid (HA) binding assay in the selection of motile spermatozoa with normal morphology at high magnification (8400x).

    Authors: Claudia G Petersen, Fabiana C Massaro, Ana L Mauri, Joao BA Oliveira, Ricardo LR Baruffi and Jose G Franco Jr
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:149
  31. In non-obstructive azoospermia, histological patterns of Sertoli cell-only Syndrome (SCO) and hypospermatogenesis (H) are commonly found. In these pathologies, Leydig cell hyperplasia (LCH) is detected in some...

    Authors: Candela R Gonzalez, María E Matzkin, Mónica B Frungieri, Claudio Terradas, Roberto Ponzio, Elisa Puigdomenech, Oscar Levalle, Ricardo S Calandra and Silvia I Gonzalez-Calvar
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:148
  32. Recent data provide significant evidence to support the hypothesis that there are sub-populations of cells within solid tumors that have an increased tumor initiating potential relative to the total tumor popu...

    Authors: Anne M Friel, Ling Zhang, Michael D Curley, Vanessa A Therrien, Petra A Sergent, Sarah E Belden, Darrell R Borger, Gayatry Mohapatra, Lawrence R Zukerberg, Rosemary Foster and Bo R Rueda
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:147
  33. During an ascending infection along the reproductive tract, the extra-placental membranes must act as a selective and competent barrier against pathogens. Human beta defensins (HBD)1, HBD2, and HBD3 are key el...

    Authors: Guadalupe Garcia-Lopez, Pilar Flores-Espinosa and Veronica Zaga-Clavellina
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:146
  34. Serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) levels are used clinically to evaluate infertility, pituitary and gonadal disorders. With increased frequency of research collaborations across institutions, it is esse...

    Authors: Jessica Scriver, Valerie L Baker, Steven L Young, Barry Behr and Lisa M Pastore
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:145
  35. Conservation Breeding Programs (CBP's) are playing an important role in the protection of critically endangered anuran amphibians, but for many species recruitment is not successful enough to maintain captive ...

    Authors: Phillip G Byrne and Aimee J Silla
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:144
  36. Inhibins are important regulators of the female reproductive system. Recently, two new inhibin subunits betaC and betaE have been described, although it is unclear if they are synthesized in normal human endom...

    Authors: Ioannis Mylonas, Ansgar Brüning, Naim Shabani, Susanne Kunze and Markus S Kupka
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:143

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  37. Adults with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can have multiple metabolic abnormalities. However, studies in the adolescent population are still limited and these results seem to vary widely. This study was to ...

    Authors: Jia Huang, Renmin Ni, Xiaoli Chen, Lili Huang, Yaqin Mo and Dongzi Yang
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:142
  38. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder has multiple determinants in the biological, psychological and socio-cultural domains. The aim of the study was to evaluate the risk factors for premenstrual dysphoric disorder ...

    Authors: Violetta Skrzypulec-Plinta, Agnieszka Drosdzol, Krzysztof Nowosielski and Ryszard Plinta
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:141
  39. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) has been reported to improve pregnancy chances in women with diminished ovarian reserve (DOR), and to reduce miscarriage rates by 50-80%. Such an effect is mathematically inconcei...

    Authors: Norbert Gleicher, Andrea Weghofer and David H Barad
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:140
  40. Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) is an exogenous hormone commonly used to induce spermiation in anuran amphibians. Over the past few decades, the LHRH dose administered to individuals and the frequ...

    Authors: Aimee J Silla
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:139
  41. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that modulates a wide range of neuroendocrine functions. However, excessive circulating serotonin levels may induce harmful effects in the male reproductive system. The objectiv...

    Authors: Águeda Ortiz, Javier Espino, Ignacio Bejarano, Graciela M Lozano, Fabián Monllor, Juan F García, José A Pariente and Ana B Rodríguez
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:138
  42. Previous studies have reported conflicting results for the comparative doses of recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (rFSH) and highly purified human menopausal gonadotrophin (hMG-HP) required per cycle of in...

    Authors: Geoffrey H Trew, Adam P Brown, Samantha Gillard, Stuart Blackmore, Christine Clewlow, Paul O'Donohoe and Radoslaw Wasiak
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:137
  43. A prolonged latent phase is independently associated with an increased incidence of subsequent labor abnormalities. We aimed to compare between oxytocin augmentation, amniotomy and a combination of both on the...

    Authors: Zohar Nachum, Gali Garmi, Yfat Kadan, Noah Zafran, Eliezer Shalev and Raed Salim
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:136
  44. During preeclampsia, placental angiogenesis is impaired. Factors released from the placenta including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), placental growth factor (PLGF), soluble VEGF receptor 1 (sFlt1),...

    Authors: Lauren Anton, David C Merrill, Liomar AA Neves, Courtney Gruver, Cheryl Moorefield and K Bridget Brosnihan
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:135
  45. Lung maturation is modulated by several factors, including glucocorticoids. Expression of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis-related components, with proposed or described local regulatory systems analo...

    Authors: Marc Simard, Mélissa Côté, Pierre R Provost and Yves Tremblay
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:134
  46. Successful embryonic implantation depends on a synchronized embryo-maternal dialogue. Chemokines, such as chemokine ligand 1 (CXCL1), play essential roles in the maternal reproductive tract leading to morpholo...

    Authors: Dunja M Baston-Büst, Martin Götte, Wolfgang Janni, Jan-Steffen Krüssel and Alexandra P Hess
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:133
  47. The ovulatory gonadotropin surge increases synthesis of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) by the periovulatory follicle. PGE2 actions on granulosa cells are essential for successful ovulation. The aim of the present stu...

    Authors: Diane M Duffy, Lynda K McGinnis, Catherine A VandeVoort and Lane K Christenson
    Citation: Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2010 8:131

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